[And]1 in the perfect time, [O perfect God,]1
When we are in our [home, our]1 natal home,
[When joy shall carry every sacred load,
And from its life and peace no heart shall roam,]1
What if thou make us able to make like thee --
To light with moons, to clothe with greenery,
To hang gold sunsets o'er a rose and purple sea!

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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 March 3, first published 1880 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by M. Ryan Taylor (b. 1972), "Gloriously wasteful", 2003 [ voice and piano ], from Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul, no. 3
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