I've Got You Safe, My Beth, and I'll Keep You So, Please, God

Began. Their father, cheerfully, but recollecting how nearly he had lost her,. He held her close, saying tenderly, with her cheek against his own, i've got you safe, my beth, and i'll keep you so, please, god. Now, beth said, amy, longing for her turn, but ready to wait. There's so little of her i'm afraid to say much, for fear she will slip away altogether - though she is not so shy as she used to be. Beth softly touched the keys, and in a sweet voice they had never though to hear again, sang, to her own accompaniment, the quaint hymn