Love Never Sleeps

"Love never sleeps!" The mother's eye

Bends o'er her dying infant's bed;

And as she marks the moments fly,

While death creeps on with noiseless tread,

Faint and distressed; she sits and weeps

With beating heart! "Love never sleeps!"

Yet e'en that sad and fragile form

Forgets the tumult of her breast;

Despite the horrors of the storm,

O'er burdened nature sinks to rest;

But o'er them both ANOTHER keeps

His midnight watch-"Love never sleeps!"

Around-above-the angel bands

Stoop o'er the care worn sons of men;

With pitying eyes and eager hands,

They raise the soul to hope again;

Free as the air, then pity weeps

The storm of time! "Love never sleeps!"

And round-beneath-and over all,

O'er men and angels, earth and heaven,

A higher bends! The slightest call

Is answered-and relief is given

In hours of Wo, when sorrow steeps

The heart in pain-"He never sleeps."

Oh, God of love, Our eyes to thee,

Tired of the world's false radience [radiance], turn;

And as we view thy purity,

We feel our hearts within us burn;

Convinced that in the lowest deeps

Of human ill, "Love never sleeps!"

The Times and Seasons

IS EDITED BY

JOHN TAYLOR.

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