Poems

WORK

GERTRUDE SMITH.

Oh , work for the love of work, my friend,If joy your heart would know,For work, true work, is a thing divine,—God's love in its overflow!Like to a bird in flight and song,Like to a child in laugh and play,This to your life is work, my friend,—God's blessing on each perfect day!

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MY CHOICE

LUCY HAYS EASTMAN.

My God, no human touch I crave,But oh, may I Thy presence feel,Closer than clasped hands,In selfless love that stretches wingO're fear-bound hearts, and works to heal!

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AT EVENING

LUCY NICHOLSON.

The master artist, with sure hand,His long brush-strokes of rose and grayHas swept across the evening sky;A hush falls on the evening landAs daylight slips awayIn perfect blend of tint and tone;The little vagrant breezes sigh:How soft the shadows are!Above the tree-tops, bright and lone,Out slips one star!

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OBEDIENCE

MINNA MATHISON

Lord , not for bowered ease we askWho hark to Truth's exalted word,—Place in the ranks, the lowliest task,A niche where we may serve thee, Lord.

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MY NEED

SARAH E. P. MC LEAN.

Give me, O Lord, the strength that dwellsAs everlasting hills,That stands serene through stress and storm,And human passion stills.

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"DUST TO DUST."

MARY HICKS VAN DER BURGH.

"Dust to dust.

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"SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM"

DAISY L. STWALLEY.

Would you run and not be weary,Would you walk and never faint,Would you gain eternal freedom?

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SEEKING THE LIGHT

MARY LOUISE FERGUSON.

I Do not ask for riches, power,For worldly wisdom, strength, or might;I only ask that every hourMay bring to me the heaven-born light.

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PEACE

GRACE ADA BOUGHTON LEIGH.

Night, with its silence and its solitude,Brings all earth's strife unto the feet of Love:There, in the stillness of the eventide,To lift our thoughts in prayer to God above.