by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919)
A face
Language: English
Between the curtains of snowy lace, Over the way is a baby's face; It peeps forth, smiling in merry glee, And waves its pink little hand at me. My heart responds with a lonely cry--- But in the wonderful By-and-By--- Out from the window of God's "To Be," That other baby shall beckon to me. That ever-haunting and longed-for face, That perfect vision of infant grace, Shall shine on me in a splendour of light, Never to fade from my eager sight. All that was taken shall be made good; All that puzzles me understood; And the wee white hand that I lost, one day, Shall lead me into the Better Way.
Confirmed with Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poetical works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox Edinburgh : W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1917
Authorship:
- by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919), "A face" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Anny Mesritz-van Velthuysen (1887 - 1965), "A face" [ voice and piano ], from Two poems, no. 2, Amsterdam : Broekmans & Van Poppel [sung text not yet checked]
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