Poems

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ARE WE GRATEFUL?

Wilhelmina Belle Barnes

In proportion to our gratitudeOur blessings grow.

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NAAMAN'S HEALING

Adelaide Rothenberg

There is a prophet in Samaria,and he will cleanse thee of thy leprosyif thou but go to him, the maiden said.

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DIRECTION

Alexander C. Horniman

Watch today,And prayThat God, not man, direct your way.

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If I can see, when fear would dim my thought,One tender glance or hear one word of hopeThat brings to mind the good that God has wroughtIn man, His likeness, I no longer gropeThrough mist and darkness over rugged ground.

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"LET THERE BE LIGHT"

Amy G. Viau

"Let there be light" is sunrise of today,Of yesterday, tomorrow, and each hour.

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THE NEW APPEARING

William T. D. Henwood

Of old, a song of angelsproclaimed a Saviour's birth,and Truth and Love incarnatesojourned with men on earth.

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SUBSTANCE

Elizabeth O'C. Ledbetter

The substance of the next year's springtime trees,The bloom of summer and the fruits of fall,Is not in blueprint, warehouse, or decrees;Love's bounty comes before we think to call.

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THE REAL

Duane Valentry

This is not man—Frail, and clothed with rags,Burdened with weight of sadness,Sickness, pain.

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SINCERE

Benjamin Sturgis Pray

When early Romans traded marble art,Deceitful dealers deftly glossed the cracksWith smooth wax-filling, but from honest martCame sculpture sine cera—"without wax";