It changed the current of my life,
And made each thought a song.
There was a glory in the sky,
A glory on the trees,
And the perfumes of Paradise
Were poured on every breeze.

I scarcely seemed to walk the earth,
My spirit was so light;
'Twas easy then to shun the wrong,
So easy to do right.
New hopes began to bud and bloom
Like blossoms in the spring,--
My heart o'erflowed with tenderness
For every living thing.

I was no more the thoughtless girl
By idle fancy led;
Life seemed to me reality,
And yet I did not dread
To walk along its roughest path:
I should not walk alone,--
Another and a better life
Was blended with mine own.

One blessing more and then, you said
Our joy would be complete;
Your prayer was answered when I sat
At the Redeemer's feet.
And deeper, holier grew our love,--