"The Poet's Corner"

The Lord Is Near
A Prayer from McGuffey’s 1st Eclectic Reader

When the stars at set of sun
Watch you from on high
When the morning has begun
Think the Lord is nigh.

All you do and all you say,
He can see and hear:
When you work and when you play,
Think the Lord is near.

All your joys and griefs He knows
Counts each falling tear.
When to Him you tell your woes,
Know the Lord is near.

For Stephen Christopher Harris

"Fear Eats the Soul"