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O Christ of God! whose life and death Our own have reconciled, Most quietly, most tenderly Take home Thy star-named child!
Thy grace is in her patient eyes, Thy words are on her tongue; The very silence round her seems As if the angels sung.
Her smile is as a listening child's Who hears its mother call; The lilies of Thy perfect peace About her pillow fall.
She leans from out our clinging arms To rest herself in Thine; Alone to Thee, dear Lord, can we Our well-beloved resign!
Oh, less for her than for ourselves We bow our heads and pray; Her setting star, like Bethlehem's, To Thee shall point the way! 1874.