Poems

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Our Hand in Thine

GERTRUDE GOODE CLARK

Father , no human touch we crave;No human voice to still our fear.

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God Be Praised

MAUD ALICE BATCHELOR

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

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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.