Poems

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Enduring Work

AGNES F. CHALMERS

"Blessed is he," the world's wise Master taught,"Whoe'er shall not offended be in me.

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No Discord in Mind

CASSIUS M. LOOMIS

Look out upon the arch of heaven at morn;Behold the starry galaxy at night.

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Forgetting

FREDERICK S. CAMPBELL

O troubled heart, regretful of past yearsAnd stain of sin, so long to goodness blind,A message here for thee, to dry thy tears.

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Bethlehem

GEORGIA WILDE

Bethlehem, O Bethlehem,We've journeyed long and far!In our sad hearts new hopes arise,In deep of night, our weary eyesSearch now the purple of thy skiesTo find again thy Star!

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Thy Word Is a Light

KATHRINE SCOBEY PUTNAM

The day began all gray, with clouds aboutUs everywhere.

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"What of the night?"

LIEUT. COL. ROBERT E. KEY

The sleeper wakes—And though the night be long,It is awakening makesThe morning songSo delicate and dear,To human ear.

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Awaken!

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Awaken from thy slumber! SeeThe feast of Truth prepared for thee!The healing feast of joy and peace:Partake, dear friend! Thy ills cease!

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Our National Thanksgiving Hymn

MARY BAKER EDDY

God of the rolling year! to Thee we raiseA nation's holiest hymn in grateful praise!Plenty and peace abound at Thy behest,Yet wherefore this Thy love?

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Where'er we look with these our fleshly eyes,Great walls deny our view: we look below,And granite leagues forbid us farther go;We look above, and worlds on worlds ariseTo mock our wisdom from the quiet skies;Our backward glances still impervious showBlank walls of birth; and forward peerings growReflective of the mist that forward lies.

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Ruth, the Moabitess

EMILY HOUSEHOLDER

To follow Truth, and leave the seeming allFor paths untried in erstwhile alien mead,And see unlessened plenty from ripe harvest fall,Annul the law, By sweat of brow shall be thy bread.