Poems

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Motherhood

GRACE L. WHITING

O tender mother-love, weighed down with fear,What canst thou do?

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"The night watches"

MABEL HYDE

How shall my heart sing songs in the night watches?

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Immanuel

LAURA GERAHTY

When Love attunes my thought, and hatred flies,And Truth lays bare life's ills 'neath sunlit skies,Then Light of light! My heart in rapture cries.

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Reflections

JANE LACY

So still and cool, a little pool,With can-tails fringed and grasses,Reflects their sheen of brown and green,Stirred by each breeze that passes.

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Radiance

EDITH L. PERKINS

Now do the constant stars their vigil holdO'er sleeping earth until the morning breaks;So Love doth guard us till Life's laws unfold,And from its dream the world to Truth awakes.

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"Watch"

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

A serpent stole its sinuous wayInto the bed where sleeping lay,By slumber bound, a drowsy wight,From serpent's fang defenseless quite.

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"Light"

MARGUERITE MONIS HAWKSLEY

Light, wondrous light, across the evening sky,Aglow on yonder hill!Light in my heart, for God is here and nigh.

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Now

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

Now has in time's pretense no part.

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Light

GERTRUDE E. BALLARD

With vision of a seer, glad and free,The artist casts bright halos, as he paints,Around the heads of fair and holy saints,That humankind their holiness may see.