A CHILD LOANED"I'LL LEND YOU FOR A LITTLE TIME A CHILD OF MINE,".HE SAIDFOR YOU TO LOVE THE WHILE HE LIVES, AND MOURN FOR WHEN HE'S DEADIT MAY BE SIX OR SEVEN YEARS OR TWENTY-TWO OR THREEBUT WILL YOU,TILL I CALL HE BACK, TAKE CARE OF HIM FOR ME?HE'LL BRING HIS CHARM TO GLADDEN YOU, AND SHOULD HE STAY B BRIEF,YOU'LL HAVE HIS LOVELY MEMORIED AS SOLACE FOR YOUR GRIEF.I CANNOT PROMISE HE WILL STAY, SINCE ALL FROM EARTH RETURN,BUT THERE ARE LESSONS TAUGHT DOWN THERE I WANT THIS CHILD TO LEARN.I'VE LOOKED THIS WIDE WORLD OVER IN MY SEARCH FOR TEACHERS TRUE,AND FROM THE THRONGS THAT CROWD LIF'S LANES I HAVE SELECTED YOU;NOW WILL GIVE HIM ALL YOUR LOVE, NOR THINK THE LABOUR VAIN,NOR HATE ME WHEN I CAME TO CALL AND TAKE HIM BACK AGAIN?I FANCIED THAT I HEARD THEM SAY. " DEAR LORD, THY WILLBE DONE,FOR ALL THE JOY THY CHILD SHALL BRING, FOR THE RISK OF GRIEF WE'LL RUN.WE'LL SHELTER HIM WITH TENDERNESS, WE'LL LOVE HIM WHILE WE MAY,AND FOR THE HAPPINESS WE'VE KNOWN, FOREVER GRATEFUL STAYBUT SHOULD ANGELS CALL FOR HIM MUCH SOONER THEN WE PLANNED,WE'LL BRAVE THE BITTER GRIEF THAT COMES AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND.
