84 A Day with the Sea Urchins.

 

“And if any harm assaileth
From the stormy wave or blast,
“One, whose mercy never faileth,
Will protection o’er us cast.
And of every aching heart
He will heal the pain and smart,
When He calls us—when He calls us—to that
happy Land at last !”

Jasper sang with all his heart. He knew that the
actual words of his song would not reach or be under-
stood by the people in the boat, but he sang and sang on,
for he wanted the spirit of his words to mingle with the
murmur of the sea and the whisper of the summer wind,
and by this means reach the heart of the sorrowful father,
and comfort him, as it really did, for by-and-by, as the
singing went on, he began to look rather less sad, and
instead of gazing down into the water, and thinking of
the little son he had so loved, lying unburied down there,
he looked up into the beautiful sky, which was now
putting on its brightest colours ready for sunset, and
thought of a happy angel up there instead.

It is not everybody who knows and loves Mother
Nature well enough to hear and understand all the
sweet comforting things she can say out of her own ~
_ great heart, to the hearts of any who are in sorrow, or
trouble, or pain, but you will agree with me that it is