Poems

ASLEEP, AND AWAKE

HAROLD SUSMAN.

All the world was dark and drear, Doubt and discord, fright and fear; What to do but weep?

Great vault of heaven, how blue and vast you are!And hoary mountains—steadfast stand ye yet!The trees, the flowers, the distant watchful star—On you I gaze enraptured and forgetThe sordid sense of separation.

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"A CALL"

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

O Judah , scattered on the hills of scorn,Uncared, un-shepherded, forsook, forlorn,Dar'st thou, in this thy day, bid sorrows cease?

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"THY LOVING-KINDNESS"

F. B. G.

Because Thy loving-kindnessIs better far than life;Because my helper Thou hast beenIn many a bitter strife;Because Thy love restrains from pathsWhere sin and fear are rife;In Thee, O True and Tried!"My soul is satisfied.

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WITHOUT VARIABLENESS

ELOISE CAMERON MAC GREGOR.

O TRUST in Spirit, when the twilight darkens,And scenes of daytime vanish like a dream;Love, the unchanging, to your least thought hearkens.

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Pass it On

MRS. H. RUTHVEN MC DONALD.

Comes a word of hope to you?

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At Last

M. BETTIE BELL.

At last, I saw the light.

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At-One With Thee

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

AT-ONE with Thee, upon the shore of timeWe stand in silent awe, at-one with Thee!And know Love is in all eternityThe only law sublime.

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The Swallows' Lesson.

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

I DEEMED, before mine eyes beheld the light,—When life was young, when I believed the storyOf wise incompetence and darkened sight,—That He, the Lord of love, the God of glory,Was even a tyrant, terrible and gory,Eager to hurl His foolish children hence,As rocks by Cyclops off their promontory,Into the foul abyss of hatred, whenceIs no return, no hope, no prayer, no penitence.