Poems on the deaf and dumb / W.R. Roe.

  • Roe, William Robert.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Poems on the deaf and dumb / W.R. Roe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tell us, they said, we wish to know Who your best friend may be ? On whom do you your love bestow ? His name, now, let us see ? The deaf mute boy the pencil took, No hesitation showed, But with a bright and happy look Wrote down the name of God. The laughing children looked at him With wonder in their eyes; The dumb boy's answer puzzled them, And fill'd them with surprise. He does not understand, they said, His knowledge is but small; He does but write what he has read, God is the friend of all. God is in heaven, 'tis very true Your best friend is above ; Now, name the friend on earth whom you Above all others love. They waited, and the deaf mute boy, In letters large and plain, Wrote, while his eyes reveal'd his joy, The name of God again. Whom have I in heaven but Thee ? To Thee my love doth tend; No one on earth can comfort me As Thou, my Saviour Friend.