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Upon the white cheek of the Cherub Year / I saw a tear. / Alas! I murmured, that the Year should borrow / So soon a sorrow. / Just then the sunlight fell with sudden flame: / The tear became / A wondrous diamond sparkling in the light- / A beauteous sight.
Upon my soul there fell such woeful loss, / I said, "The Cross / Is grievous for a life as young as mine. " / Just then, like wine, / God's sunlight shone from His high Heavens down; / And lo! a crown / Gleamed in the place of what I thought a burden- / My sorrow's guerdon.