Article August 9, 1969 Issue

"On upward wing"

RUTH GAZZAM HAIGHT

One of the most comforting poems ever written is "The Mother's Evening Prayer" by Mrs. Eddy. The first verse reads:

O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight. Poems, p. 4;

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