Poems

If I but Love

IVA B. LINEBARGER

IF I but love,No shadow will I castAcross the pathway of another's day;Whatever I may think or do or say,I will but help another on his way,Nor burden more his task—If I but love.

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Give me, dear Lord, a heart so triedBy flames of purifying fire,That sin and self may be consumed,And in their stead a pure desireTo learn to love Thy chastening rodThat brings me ever nearer Thee;To grow more Christlike day by day,Thy tender love and goodness see.

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The People Murmured

VERNE TAYLOR BENEDICT

Would God that we had died while yet in Egypt,The people murmured when they weary grew.

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Inspiration

KATHRINE SCOBEY PUTNAM

I Cannot always find the spring,The spring of inspiration;But when I climb a sunlit hill,The hill of revelation,I find it, bright and glistening.

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Be Thou My Strength Alway

OMA OLNA MARTIN

Dear Father, like a thoughtless childI stumble oft and cry,Forgetting in my waywardnessThy guiding hand is nigh.

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The Practitioner

MAY TERRY CARLSON

You gave me friendship,Deep, enduring, strong;With wondrous patience.

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"Ask, and it shall be given"

EDITH M. SHANK

Why hear ye not the Master's loving counselWhen burdened sense affirms great is the need?

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Witness

MILDRED NICKERSON HALL

Now through my daily round I goWith joyous steps, most willingly.

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Light

MABEL WHITE RODOCKER

When shadows deepen and my heart grows weary,Quite burdened with the weight of sin and woe,I find a refuge sweet in Love's abiding,And hear the gentle, "Peace, be still, and know.