4.05.2022

a speckled cat and a tame hare

A speckled cat and a tame hare
Eat at my hearthstone
And sleep there;
And both look up to me alone
For learning and defence 
As I look up to Providence.

I start out of my sleep to think
Some day I may forget
Their food and drink;
Or, the house door left unshut, 
The hare may run till it’s found
The horn’s sweet note and the tooth of the hound.

I bear a burden that might well try 
Men that do all by rule,
And what can I 
That am a wandering witted fool
But pray to God that He ease
My great responsibilities? 
 

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