SIGNS OF THE HEART

Come to me, joys of heaven!

Breathe through the summer air

A balm — the long-lost leaven

Dissolving death, despair!

O little heart,

To me thou art

A sign that never can depart.

Come to me, peace on earth!

From out life's billowy sea,—

A wave of welcome birth,—

The Life that lives in Thee!

O Love divine,

This heart of Thine

Is all I need to comfort mine.

Come when the shadows fall,

And night grows deeply dark;

The barren brood, O call

With song of morning lark;

And from above,

Dear heart of Love,

Send us thy white-winged dove.