May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.
Genesis 31:49
Words: Julia A. Baker, in Echoes of Paradise, compiled by Thoro Harris (Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Woodman, 1903), number 247.
Music: Thoro Harris (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Baker (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Go thou thy way, and I go mine—
Apart, yet not afar;
Only a thin veil hangs between
The pathways where we are.
And “God keep watch ’tween thee and me”—
This is my earnest prayer;
He looks thy way, He looketh mine,
And keeps us near, and keeps us near.
I know not where thy road may lie,
Or which way mine will be:
If mine will lead thro’ parching sands,
And thine beside the sea;
Yet God keep watch ’tween thee and me
—
So shall we never fear;
He holds thy hand, He claspeth mine,
And keeps us near, and keeps us near.