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- Dear angel, ever at my side,
How long must thou be,
To leave thy home in heave to guard,
A sinful child like me.
- For I have felt thee in my thoughts,
Fighting with sin for me;
And when my heart loves God,
I know the sweetness is from thee.
- And when, dear spirit, I kneel down
Morning and night to prayer,
Something there is within my heart
Which tells me thou art there.
- Yet! when I pray thou prayest too,
Thy prayer is all for me;
But when I sleep thou sleepest not,
But watchest patiently.
- Then, for thy sake,
More humble will I be;
But I am weak; and when I fall,
O wary not of me.