Poems

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April

BY JULIA MICHAEL.

A little crocus bud lifted its headUp from a bed of brown,And the sun smiled through from a bit of blueAnd shone on its yellow gown.
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A Flower Legend

BY M. A. G

When he whose sinless spirit hasFor centuries been our guide and way,Compassed by stern and cruel foes,Was being forced up the dread hillOf suffering and shameful death,Weary and fainting 'neath the burdenOf the heavy cross on which he was to yieldIn agony, his stainless life,—'Tis said, that in his stepsThere bloomed a sudden wonder:—A snowy flower, that mortal eyeTill then, had never seen.

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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Glad Easter Day!

BY E. F. V.

O Easter day! Glad Easter day!I come to thee my vows to pay.

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To Health

Sarah Louise Morris

Life's most essential friend, I drink to theeAnd thy advancement in this o'er-frail world,Thy laws thou dost not veil in mystery;'Tis we, ourselves.
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Easter Day

LETITIA VERTREES PULLMAN.

"Awake ! put on thy strength, O Zion!" for Easter Day has come;The new-born earth from bondage loosed, no longer blind and dumb,Has seen the brightness of the glory of the risen Star,And on this happy morn, across the eastern sky, the barOf coming light illumines man, and lifts desireTo holier thoughts and deeds, and song caught from celestialchoir.
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Constancy

MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

[Written many years ago.

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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A Fragment of Prayer

MARY J. ELMENDORF.

Guide , Father-Mother God, into the light,Out of the shadows into harmony.
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There is no morrow. Though before our face...

There is no morrow.
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"The Lord is my Shepherd"

BY EDWARD C. BUTLER.

Music: "Portuguese Hymn," page 198 of Christian Science Hymnal.
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Sweet Rebuke

BY ELLA S. SARGENT.

His faithful ones, the Master said,The sick would surely heal;Would "cleanse the leper," "raise the dead,"And God, in flesh, reveal.
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The Root and the Flower

A Wild Rose grew by the pasture wall,A beautiful shrub with branches tall,With wonderful color and rich perfume.
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True Selfhood

BY JESSAMINE GLESSNER CHILDS

We grow in God as self is left behind;And rise to know true selfhood Mind.