Poems

YOUR FATHER HEARS

Phebe West

God listens to our silent prayers;No mortal din can dull His ears:Our daily needs the Lord supplies;Our grateful praise He always hears.

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WHO ARE YOU?

Benjamin Sturgis Pray

IDENTITY is not to be from there or here— from nation, race, profession, place, from poor, from peer.

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SAFETY

Cyril H. Golding

Is it the soft, encircling arm Cradling tiny babe to breast, Or even the branch that keeps from harm Fledgling in the hedgerow nest?

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PERMANENT ADDRESS

Pearl Strachan Hurd

WHERE do you want to live?

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THE BURNING BUSH

Fanny de Groot Hastings

Still in the lone, the desert place There grows the bush that burns with fire And yet is not consumed; no trace Of heat or smoke has singed its spire.

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A LESSON FROM MICHELANGELO

Pierrepont E. Twitchell

He was the greatest sculptor of them all.

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RELINQUISHMENT

Robert Oliver Shipman

Be patient, be still.

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DEDICATION

Grace K. Sticht

Dear God, Thou art the builder.

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A SONG OF BETHLEHEM

Gertrude E. Velguth

A village humble, still,The guiding star above;A shepherd on a hill,The mother-heart of love;The child of truth and grace,A world to pacify;An angel song of praise,And God to glorify.