Poems

"The secret place of the most High"

GRACE NIXON STECHER

Oh, let me not in manner loudProfess Thy sacred Word;To gain the plaudits of the crowd,Let not my voice be heard.

Life's Symphony

AMY DOROTHEA DAVISON

As you have waited for the symphony,Have you not murmured at the notes unblentOf 'cellos, woodwinds, horns, and violins,As each musician tunes his instrument?

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Thanksgiving

MARY O'LESON

What are the songs that grateful hearts are singing;What are the thoughts they joyfully express;What are the deeds that willing hands are doing?

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Thanksgiving Days

THOMAS C. HOLLINGSHEAD

With grateful hearts we gather, Lord,On these thanksgiving days,And for the blessings of the yearOur praise to Thee we raise.

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Christians, Arise!

KATHRYN BALL RUSH

Dear Father-Mother God, we know that Thou art Love,That Thou art here and everywhere—around, beneath, above.

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As Mountains Round About Jerusalem

MARY STONE WALLACE

Before I gained the sense of thankfulnessI never knew the riches that were mine;Not having learned the secret of content,My life, so dull, seemed hardly worth the while;The friends I had seemed only friends in name—I was a stranger to my very own.

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Love's Message

WALTER CLIFFORD HARVEY

Heed thou the message which Love doth impart—Freedom from bondage for each earnest heart.

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Thanksgiving

FANNIE I. S. WARDELL

Gladness fills the air,Scent of autumn rare;Russet leaves and goldFall in forests old.

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Desire

JEANNETTE TIBDALL

To see Thy path, constant in praiseTo walk with Thee in unsought ways;To have my thought held fast in Thine,My every wish a prayer divine,My every word the truth sublime,My every deed Thy love expressed,Humble, O Lord, and truly blessedWith Love's eternal fire—This, only this, is my desire.

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God's Light

LOUISE W. PRIMROSE

Dear Father-Mother God, to Thee I prayFor light—and lo, Love shineth o'er my way,Thy truth my guide and stay;So may I learn in grateful joy to yieldEach thought to Thee, and labor in Thy field,Nor cease till close of day.