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Song Of The Dispossessed. "To Jesus."

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"Be with us by day, by night,         O lover, O friend;      Hold before us thy light         Unto the end!      "See, all these children of ours         Starved and ill-clad.      Speak to thy heart's lily-flowers,         And make them glad!      "Our wives and daughters are here,         Knowing wrong and shame's touch      Bid them be of good cheer         Who have loved much.      "And we, we are robbed and oppressed,         Even as thine were.      Tell us of comfort and rest,         Banish despair!      "Be with us by day, by night,         O lover, O friend;      Hold before us thy light         Unto the end!"

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