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Don't you know some other song? I should like to hear another." Yes; Elsli knew many others; but she could not tell which it would be best to repeat now.
After thinking awhile, she suddenly looked up brightly and said, "I remember one now that perhaps you will like.
Shall I say it ?" and as her companion nodded assent, she went on:-- "The night draws on--sped is my day; I know my end is near. I raise my trembling hands to pray; The grave's dark road I fear. "O God! thou art my only light! Be thou my guiding star! Hide all my trespasses from sight; Thy mercies endless are. "Look down upon me, Lord! I bow, Repenting of my sin, Oh! ope the gates of heaven now, And bid me enter in." The old man was silent.
In a few moments Elsli arose, and the grandfather rose also, to go back with her into the house.
While with slow and painful steps they regained the door, he said, thoughtfully:-- "Yes; I heard that long ago when I went to church.
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