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Poems

THE SHEPHERDESS

From the March 1897 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The Shepherdess calls the sheep!
Where have they gone astray,
The long and cloudy day?
Around the big earth-ball,
Thrills the clear, gentle call,—
The Shepherdess seeking the sheep.

The lambs are cold and numb,
The wolves have wasted the fold,
(In sheep-skin as of old)
And not since Galilee,
From blue Tiberian sea,
Has such a summons come!

Oh, tender as the wind of May
That woos the buds to bloom,
And stirs their dear perfume;
As strong as Sun's demand
That clouds forsake the land,
She calls them, night and day!

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