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COME IN, MY CHILD

From the February 1947 issue of The Christian Science Journal


With timid feet up to the vineyard gate
I walked. "I am so young," I thought, "so new
In this great work. I know so little how

"To plant, or pick the fruit. Perhaps to wait
A while would be the better thing to do;
I have not learned enough to enter now."

With careless feet, on by the vineyard gate
Another traveler passed. "If only few-
Stop here to labor, then the humblest one

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