Poems

Love Unfailing

EDITH L. PERKINS

O thou who through the test of years hast knownUnnumbered proofs of Love's protecting power,Rejoice in this thy seeming darkest hour,God now no less is caring for His own.

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Peace

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

There is quiet everywhereWhen we do His will;Quiet full of loveliness,Warm and deep and still,Like this April eveningFrom my window sill.

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Our Desires

MARGARET WINGFIELD

Teach us, O God, to knowOur lives are hid with Thee,Within Thy peace and permanence,Held in security.

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Lessons

PHYLLIS INGRAM

Be humble!For see, the springing grass doth gladly giveCool comfort to all weary journeying feet.

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Set under Authority

PETER J. HENNIKER HEATON

Mountain tops of selfishness, deeps of unreality,Have they seemed to baffle thee toiling for the right?

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Dawn

ALICE T. MC COUN

Have you not watched at dawn the radiant lightChange clouds of gray to brighter shade on shade?

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Seeds of Love

CHRISTIANA WILLINK

When earth seems weary and wan and sadJust scatter the seeds of love:Someone is waiting to be made glad;Go, scatter the seeds of love.

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The Lecture

THOMAS QUINN

One holy hourWhen men may come and findThe priceless truth—God is all-loving Mind.

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Serenity

ANNA EMANUEL WILLIAMS

Would error nullify the good,Unfolding now before our sight?

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Unto thy door may come some dayOne to be healed; and sense will say:Here is a man by sin insnared,Nothing of evil has been sparedTo make for him full wretchedness,To bow him low beneath earth's stress;Poverty-stricken, ill, afraid,Hopeless is he—beyond all aid.