School: Effin (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8334)
- Location:
- Eifinn, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Mrs A. Fitzgerad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 113
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- Child of My Heart, "Lean Hard"
And let Me feel the pressure of thy care
I know thy burden child I shaped it
Poised it in Mine Own Hand made no proportions
Between its weight and thine unaided strength
For even as I laid it on I said
I shall be near and while she leans on Me
The burden shall be mine not hers
So shall I keep my child
Within the encircling Arms of My Love
Here lay it down nor fear
To impose it on A Shoulder
Which upholds the Government of World
Yet closes come thou are not near enough
I would embrace my care
So I might feel my child reposing on My Heart
Thou lovest Me, I know it, doubt not then
But loving Me, Lean Hard
