Poems

"Res Pulchrissimae"

WHAT are the very fairest things that be?

Sunshine everywhere!...

Sunshine everywhere! I have no care—Nor do I pineFor rays that on my brother shine;For all is mineWith sunshine everywhere!'Tis but—lo here, lo there—To study close another's lot;And to compareWith his what thou hast got;Each has his shareWith sunshine everywhere!

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Anthology of classic articles II

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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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I say to thee, do thou repeatTo the first man thou may'st meetIn lane, highway, or open street,

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Life is the tuning-time, completeAlone when every chord is sweetThrough sacrifice.

"The mighty God"

Can we essay to circumscribe the Mind,Creative source of all that is, and was,And is to be?

Morning

As when across the waking east there showsThe first faint flush of dawn, whose latent beamsPortend the coming of the light that teemsTriumphant till the earth no shadow knows;So in the heart where now but faintly glowsThe presence of the Christ, these quickening gleamsGive promise of release from earthly dreamsWhen Spirit's light the consciousness o'erflows.

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Changing your world

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Consecration

Oh may I keep my thought so clear, so fair,That angels, with their fingers pure as light,May trace the will of God unhindered there.

"It doth not yet appear"

It doth not yet appear how much of gloryMay grace the dawning of another day;How fair the earth may glisten in the sunbeamsWhen once the storms of error roll away.

"The secret place"

Within Thy secret place, O Love, I kneel:The door is shut; no sinful sense can stealAcross the threshold of this holy placeWhere I have come in search of truth and grace;My lips are mute; here thought alone doth prayFor revelation of the Christly way.

As a Man Thinketh

Oh, I heard the ceaseless sighing of the winds of discontent,Heard it when the day was dying, heard it ere the morn was spent;      From the broad plain and the mountain,      From the lowland and the sea,The one sound was the same sound that was wafted back to me;A sound beset with sadness from the realms of blighted dreams,A plaintive song of a world all wrong, where hope no radiance gleams.

Wise Wishing

If I could have one wish for thee,And only one,And I in faithless vanityShould summon wealth, and thou wert wonTo gilden bravery,—False to my trust I'd be.

Truth the Victor

Not in this warShall ye with fierce, embattled foes contend,Nor spear nor breastplate use to pierce or fend.