Poems

The Humble Tasks

IRIS V. ZEA

Help me, O Lord, the humble tasks to do;Give me to serve Thee with my thought each day,So joyously that as I bake or sweep,My light may shine to those along the way.

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"O gentle presence, peace and joy and power"

UNA ROSAMOND LIAS

Gentle presence, Thou art with me! Let me feel Thy peace,From the clamor of earth's turmoil Bringing sweet release.

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Pentecost

LUCY M. GOODENOUGH

Thou living light of pentecostal glory,Lo! wide we fling our hampering doors of clay; Thy cleansing fires pour through us we implore Thee,To purge and sanctify our hearts to-day.

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LAZARUS

W. CYPRIAN BRIDGE

And I knew that thou hearest me always!Thus spake the blessed Master as he stoodBefore the silent tomb of him he loved,Amid the weeping women and the menAssembled there in mourning for the dead.

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Beneath a weary burden bending low—A burden seeming more than men can bear,Of sin and grief and earth's unending woe—Bowed by its heavy weight of ceaseless care,Upon the shore of earth's deep, troubled sea,A mortal sinks in silent misery.

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Omnipresence

LEAH BOHN

Dear God, I know he walks in vainWho seeks to walk apart from Thee.

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The Quest

LUCY M. GOODENOUGH

City of God! Lo, here, on high white summit?

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Watch

MABEL CONE BUSHNELL

Watch every thought that it may leadAway from mortal strife,Away from earthly cares and greedTo Love and Truth and Life.

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The Little Prayer

ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

As I lingered for a moment by the door,And overheard the baby's prayerWhispered to imploreOur Father's blessing, all the airSeemed filled with fragrance—just as thoughA bud had soft unfolded thereOn some rare stem which only angels know.