Poems

Restoration

GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK

THERE was once a neglected garden, A garden o'ergrown with weeds Of resentment, hatred, and malice, Resulting in sinful deeds.

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MARY ADELAIDE AYERS

A FRIENDLY little house set by the road,Not importuning, but with open door,Where tired pilgrims learn to drop their load,The while love laves their feet, as once of yore.

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IT is not always easy to obey, And tread the path that opens for my feet; Another path would seem to be An easier, smoother climb for me, Enabling me my journey to complete More quickly; nor so long would seem the day.

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The Call

EDITH D. HOPKINS

IN Love divine all good abounds,

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The Nazarene

MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL

He told us everything he could About the lilies, and the way The shepherds carry home the lambs Within their arms at close of day; How we within our Shepherd's fold Are ever safely housed and fed, And all who walk with tender Love Like little lambs are gently led.

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Desire

E. JEWEL ROBINSON

My one desire, dear Lord, with Thee to walk; And in that sweet communion, day by day, So quickened be, that I may hear Thee talk, And garner closely all that Thou would'st say.