Poems

God Be Praised

MAUD ALICE BATCHELOR

O Father-Mother God, O Love divine!I thank Thee for Thy never failing good.

Love's Triumph

ELIZABETH CARMON FIELD

When the clouds of sense descending,Seem to gather drear and wild,Can you say with thought transcending,It is well with God's own child?

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A Prayer

RUBY A. GARDNER

Oh, let me be as glass transparent,Through which the light of Truth may shine;Oh, let Thy love be e'er apparent;As I reflect that Love divine.

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Protection

VINNA MARA KING

In the light of God's dear love,Beholding His perfect way,There living, growing, loving,Find "life.

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The Law of Love

LUCIE HASKELL HILL

The earth belongs to him who loves,And all its fullness is his own;In kingly company he moves,Who does not seek to walk alone.

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"Worship God"

MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON

Whenever through the troublous dayTemptation's woes appear,When sorrow weighs my spirit down,A "still small voice" I hear:"Worship God.

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Harvest Song

MARTHA BAILEY PROCTOR

Out in the fields it is time for the mowing;White gleams the harvest on hillside and plain,Out in the fields where the tares, too, are growing,Seeking to smother the bright yellow grain.

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As a Child

BETHEL GILLIAM

I lose the sense of passing years, of time;Youth is renewed,And thoughts are preened for happier, loftier flight,When I become a child.

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In deep and somber fastness of a woodA silent golden cataract of lightO'er crags of green and yellow foliage leaps,Nor bends its radiant courseTill in the troubled mirror of a poolIts molten splashes far across the fernsWake glimm'ring light,Like diamond dew amid the maidenhair.