Her mother, Elfie older grown, <br />One evening, for adieu, <br />Said, 'You'll not mind being left alone, <br />For God takes care of you!' <br /> <br />In child-way her heart's eye did see <br />The correlation's node: <br />'Yes,' she said, 'God takes care o' me, <br />An' I take care o' God.' <br /> <br />The child and woman were the same, <br />She changed not, only grew; <br />'Twixt God and her no shadow came: <br />The true is always true! <br /> <br />As daughter, sister, promised wife, <br />Her heart with love did brim: <br />Now, sure, it brims as full of life, <br />Hid fourteen years in him!<br /><br />George MacDonald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reciprocity-11/
