Poems

"Kings and priests"

FLORENCE L. MAGERS

To know dominion is to be a kingWithin the realm of Mind that knows no boundOf time or place, of person or of thing;Where happiness and health and hope are foundIn freedom from the Adam-dream,In consciousness of good supreme.

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Home

MARY C. REYNOLDS

"Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God.

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Love Pays the Debt

EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR

ALL day, dear Father, I have watched Thy sheep,Striving with tireless love each one to keep.

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What We Most Need

F. INA BURGESS

WHAT we most need is humbleness,And willingness to wait—The patience of the man who layBeside the temple gate.

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"Love is our refuge"*

ARTHUR STANTON LAMROCK

THE day is done, in Thy dear arms we restSecure, O Father-God, from every fear;With grateful hearts for all thy love has blessed,We know Thee ever present, always near.

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Heaven Within

THOMAS D. M. LATTA

I HEARD an inward voice,It spoke so soft and clear;And when I asked where Love might be,It gently whispered, Here!

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The Impersonal Visit

KATHRYN LANEY

Love came todayAnd brought me inspiration,And lifted meFrom sorrow and from pain.

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Promise

DUDLEY STOW

Since this great world, so wide in beauty spreading,Is but a semblance of the truth sublime,And the rich, kindly earth—on which we're treading—Sounds but false echoings of space and time;Since lights and shadows of the changing oceanAre borrowed splendors, and the far pale star—Fixed and remote from all our brief emotion—Whispers the finitude of what they are;Well may we strive, with unabating wonder,To glimpse the vision of eternity,Glories undreamed grow greater as we ponder,Spirit supreme, immortal harmony;False joy and sorrows—matter's lure and terrors—Scripture and Science unmask, as unreal errors!