Poems

Aspiration

F. WINIFRED S. BLOXHAM

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True Freedom

MARY G. SCRIBNER

Know you the song of the captive birdFinding itself set free,Soaring aloft into freedom glad,Singing in ecstasy?

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True Comradeship

ELIZABETH EARL JONES

Climbing a rugged road,Bowed down by sorrow's load,Doubting the end,I turned from dark despair;My hands reached out in prayer,When, lo, heaven's help was there,—A friend.

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Rejoice

SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD

When the good you desire seems so far awayThat your hope grows dim in your heartAnd your faith less clear, it is time to pray,And awaken and do your part.

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Assurance

TEDA M. EARLE

I heard a nestling crying in the dark;The mother hid it 'neath her brooding wingAnd quickly hushed the frightened little thing.

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Fidelity

JAMES N. HATCH

A rosebush grew by a crumbling wallAt the end of a lonely lane,Where a solemn silence ruled o'er allAnd the tangled grass and the weeds so tallWithered for lack of rain.

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O royal city of the glorious King,Thy radiant splendor, born of Love divine,Nor sun nor moon to thee can changing bring,Since God's own everlasting day is thine:As boundless are thy beauteous jasper walls,Thrice iridescent as the shimmering seaWhen on each crest the noontide sunbeam falls,And limitless as His eternity.

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Spring

MARIE RUSSELL

Today the gentle violetA soft assurance bears,Because the morning sun arose,And dried her dewy tears.

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Resurrection

EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH

"Lazarus , come forth"!—the Christ-command was spoken;The answer came, revealing life unbroken.

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The Promised Land

CHARLES C. SANDELIN

Apart from Love a desert is, despair,With naught to kindle hope, no lasting peace;Joy bides there not, for sorrow there hath lease:A waste of weariness, and want, and care!But in Love's presence all is sweet and fair,—The joys of Spirit never know decrease;And thus all claims of error quickly cease,For Truth omnipotent reigns ever there!