Poems

The Good Shepherd

GERTRUDE GOODING MC CLOUD

How can I want more than I have of good,Since Love my Shepherd is, and I the sheepThat, though it wanders, seeketh still the roadWhere all the flock of His their feet should keep?

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Remembrance

ALICE TROXELL MC COUN

Would you remember one alway, alway,Then call to mind the times his thought was kind,Forgetting self that love might be enshrined.

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Testimony

IDA MARIA HANSON

You who have touched his garment's hem, Why falter you, why wait?

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For Aaron holy garments did they make,For glory and for beauty, long agoThat, thus enrobed, in deep humilityHe might approach the inmost sanctuary,The secret place beyond the wreathed veil,Within the temple's close-encircling courts—High priest before the altar of the Lord.

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At-one-ment

MARGARET OSBORN

O God, Thou perfect Life!Because I dwell in TheeMy life is ever sureThroughout eternity.

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Supplication

CHRISTIANA WILLINK

Speak, Father-Mother, God; send forthThy message to my ear;Make me receptive to the call,Conscious that Thou art All-in-all,In deep humility.

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They Have Been with Jesus

CAROLINE L. DIER

Yes, they are changed—How kindly do they speak;The crippled beggar stands erectSince they have passed,And surely, yonder blind manIs gazing toward the mountain—seeing!