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| YOU remember, dear, together | |
| Two children, you and I, | |
| Sat once in the autumn weather, | |
| Watching the autumn sky. | |
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| There was some one round us straying | 5 |
| The whole of the long day through, | |
| Who seemed to say, “I am playing | |
| At hide and seek with you.” | |
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| And one thing after another | |
| Was whispered out of the air, | 10 |
| How God was a big, kind brother | |
| Whose home is in everywhere. | |
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| His light like a smile comes glancing | |
| Through the cool, cool winds as they pass, | |
| From the flowers in heaven dancing | 15 |
| To the stars that shine in the grass. | |
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| From the clouds in deep blue wreathing | |
| And most from the mountains tall, | |
| But God like a wind goes breathing | |
| A dream of Himself in all. | 20 |
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| The heart of the Wise was beating | |
| Sweet, sweet, in our hearts that day: | |
| And many a thought came fleeting | |
| And fancies solemn and gay. | |
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| We were grave in our way divining | 25 |
| How childhood was taking wings, | |
| And the wonder world was shining | |
| With vast eternal things. | |
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| The solemn twilight fluttered | |
| Like the plumes of seraphim, | 30 |
| And we felt what things were uttered | |
| In the sunset voice of Him. | |
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| We lingered long, for dearer | |
| Than home were the mountain places | |
| Where God from the stars dropt nearer | 35 |
| Our pale, dreamy faces. | |
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| Our very hearts from beating | |
| We stilled in awed delight, | |
| For spirit and children were meeting | |
| In the purple, ample night. | 40 |
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