Poem June 28, 1941 Issue

In Safe Keeping

DOROTHY CLARE FORTH

"Keep this for me."
What child has not said this,
And placed a treasure in his mother's hand,
With strict injunction she should keep it safe
Till he return?
He knows with her it will be safe;
No troubled thought or anxious fear besets his mind,
And off he runs light-hearted to his play.

If children so can trust, why should not we,
And place our treasures, too, in God's safe hand?
Our hopes, ambitions, needs, and those we love,
Just see them in His all-embracing care,
And say with joyous heart, "They are with Thee!"