Poems

"As the waters cover the sea"

FRANCIS E. FALKENBURY

The other night, while swimming in the seaAmid a flame of phosphorescent light,I turned face upward, through the lovely night,To that great symbol of infinity,—

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Love "thinketh no evil"

ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON

Love knows no fear, no anxious dread.

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Healing

BENJAMIN KEECH

Thou dost not need to spend thy life in woe,—No will but mortals' ever willed it so.

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The Rule of Mind

MINNA MATHISON

Ruler of every world and star,Thou holdest man and beast and flowerIn the safe shelter of Thy power,And leadest lovingly and far.

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The night with dreams was filled, with terrors dread,And real unto my slumbering sense did seem:Oh, what a world that did with specters teem,As in the chamber of the living dead!I sought to flee, but could not turn my head,Fast bound within the fetters of the dream,When, lo! amid the darkness there did gleamA ray of light: behold, the dream had fled!

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Thine is the Kingdom

F. WINIFRED S. BLOXHAM

Thine is the kingdom; so where'er we lookAll things bespeak a Father's loving care;Decay and discord, sin, disease, and death—No dark dream shadows find a refuge there.