[Thou, then as now, no less wilt be my life,
And I shall know it better than before,
Praying and trusting, hoping, claiming more.
From effort vain, sick foil, and bootless strife,]1
I shall, with childness fresh, look up to thee;
Thou, seeing thy child with age encumbered sore,
Wilt round him bend thine arm more carefully.

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• by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905), no title, appears in A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, Entry for October Twentieth, first published 1880 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by M. Ryan Taylor (b. 1972), "Childness fresh", 2003 [ voice and piano ], from Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul, no. 4
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