Poems

He Healed Them All

HELEN M. HEALY

Of all the pictures on the sacred page,Painted in words whose colors never pall,Replete with love to youth and hoary age,To me the sweetest is, he healed them all.

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Security

LEAH BOHN

Lo! through the midst of them he passed,Unseen and free!Naught was there that a carnal mindCould touch or see.

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A Needed Thought

LUCY GWENDOLINE LAMB

Cease now your anguished crying,The thought came clear to me;It stands not for God's goodness,It is disloyalty.

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"Stretch forth thine hand"

FREDERICK WILLIAM PRITCHARD LE SUEUR

Joyfully within the temple's portalsThe maimed man answered to the Lord's command,Never doubting him whose love had bid him,"Stretch forth thine hand.

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If God Is All

BABETTE H. DEAN

If God is All, whence comes this veil of darkness;Whence come this terror and this starless night?

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Security

MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE

Although the path seems dark, the way obscure,And great clouds stoop above me, threatening,I need not fear these phantoms; safe and sureI can walk onward, never wavering.

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God Walks with Me

LUELLA A. BREWER

How good it is to knowGod walks with me.

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Love

GRACE M. FRANCK

O Love divine, all human love transcending,Unveil our eyes, that we may clearly seeHow omnipresent Love—like streams unending—Forever flows to bless humanity.

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A Daily Prayer

LUCY M. GOODENOUGH

O light divine, thou'rt ever nearTo guide our way,Out from the gloom of doubt and fearTo perfect day.

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I Thank Thee, Father

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

From self-will's way, where briar and thorntear at my wayward feet from morntill weary night comes down, I turnwith deep humility to learnthe way that Thou wouldst have me go.