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/ Blind and helpless alone I wait; / The way seems dark and prayers too late, / My anguished soul sends forth the cry, / Father save me, ere I die; / Save me for my children small, / Leave them not to sin and fall, / Sending forth the saddened call, / Mother, come back, mother!
Blind and helpless days wear by, / Sick and friendless, left to die; / The darkness deepens as I grope, / Afraid to live, afraid to hope; / They tell me of a better land, / Lord, I cannot see Thy hand, / Around me steals an icy band, / Save me or I perish.