Poems

Ab Initio

BELLE D. MAC GREGOR

Thou who hast watched the flame of hope burn lowUpon the altar hid within thine heartTill ashes cold and gray as moorland mistThe altar and thine heart alike enfold,And thou did'st rise with senses dulled by painUnspeakable to stumble down the pathInto the valley veiled in mists of doubt;Hear thou the voice of Truth immutable:Pause thou within the shadow of the rockWhile Truth doth break to thee the bread of Life.

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Guerdon

NINA SEYMOUR KEAY

Father of lights! Our Father!What shall the guerdon be,For many a grim encounterWith the waves of a surging sea?

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Dawn

NEVA W. GEER

Out of darkness and of dreamlandWhere the weary seek repose,Breaks the dawn with tints of azure,O'er earth's tangled web of woes.

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Assurance

ANITA GRAY LITTLE

Who would doubt the coming dawn,Though the night be without a star!Or the certainty of approaching Spring,While yet o'er earth afarLies Winter's mantle white?

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Vision

CHARLOTTE BRUNER

At first a faint perception of the Christ,A gleam that tells us, Doubt not, but hope on;Then step by step with firmer tread we gainThe light that shows us God,—the dark is gone!

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A Prince Now Prays

LOUIS JOSEPH LEWIS

"King of the universe,All-knowing Mind,Father in heaven,So strong, tender, kind,Highest and holiest,This endless day,"So spake a child of God,"Teach me to pray.

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Free

DAISY D. STEPHENSON

Bound by sickness, sin, tradition?

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Harvest

LENA M. HALL

It is not hard to frame a harvest songWhen trees are sweet with blossoms in the spring,When the soft showers vie with the constant sun,And lush grass gives abundant pasturing.