The Refreshment

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If I could have foreseen this hour,
  What terror and anguish I had seen!
And not this time of joy at flower,
  Cool waters and a garden green.

All day the battle in the East
  Thunders. Dear Angels, keep him well!
His mother sits as to a feast.
  O heart of steel invulnerable!

All night I sleep the young child's sleep
  And waken to the robin's song,
Blithe as the bird. Dear Angels, keep
  My darling the sharp spears among.

Ah now, I know whose Arms enfold,
  I rest on such a mighty Heart;
He hides my eyes lest they behold,
  In a most heavenly place apart.

Lord, if this ease be but a lull
  Ere the deep seas are over my head,
I shall have had, O Beautiful!
  This hour joy-filled and comforted.

© Katharine Tynan