Poems

Our Dwelling Place

AMY CAROLINE THROSSELL

Our dwelling place in Thee, O Lord,Before the mountains were,Before the hills and valleys bloomedIn radiant joy secure!

A Prayer

LEILA SMITH GRIFFITH

Lord, grant me patienceTo bear the little things that seem to irk —The petty hates, the jealousies that lurkIn daily contact with my fellow man—These cannot hurt me, if I only canMore patient be.

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Stronghold

MARIA LOUISE BAUM

Go publish ye the glory of the Lord,His uninvaded power;So publishing and praising, tell the newsOf man's exhaustless dower.

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Freedom

KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK

Sin has no power to bind you,Child of God.

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Faith

CORNELIUS JAMES FITZGERALD

Be thou content with one step at a time And, seeing it, walk thou the way God leads;He will make plain the purpose of His plan; Doubt not that He will furnish all thy needs.

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A Prayer

ELEANOR BLANCHARD

Dear God, before Thee here I meekly bow,And pray that Thou wouldst teach me humbleness.

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Love

ELEANOUR TREHANE NORTON

A loving look, a word of truth, And lo! the Christ is there, Bringing a sense of harmony, Divine, beyond compare.

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Holy Days

UNA ROSAMOND LIAS

You need not leave the grandeur of the hills, Returning to the city's crowded streets; The majesty of Spirit ever fills The heart that each new day with courage greets.

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"A little coat"

ROSE E. SHARLAND

O tender mother-love! We like to markHow the child Samuel served in deed and thought,Tending the glowing flame before the ark,Wearing the coat his mother's hands had wrought.

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How little children, free from every qualmOf carking care, to happy rest time yield,Content with that day's joy, serenely calm;Nor strive to know their parents' thought will shieldAnd keep their children with unloosening hold;Enriched by ceaseless wealth of careful loveAnd sure providing, safe as in a foldThe lambs unheedful rest, or as the doveIn its wood nest secure! So clouds of fearHave never dimmed the child's sweet heaven of peace,Or stirred a dread he might become less dear,Nor roused a wondering thought if love could cease.