Poems

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COMFORT

BELLE A. MUNDY

O FLEDGLING, on a cold world thrust,Fly thou to God, since fly thou must!For He shall cover thee with His wings,And 'neath His feathers thou shalt trust.
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HEAVEN

VENI MC DONALD PORGES.

'Tis not afar in distant skiesThe shining hills of heaven rise.

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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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TWO ROSES

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY.

A rosebud fair in a garden grew,Tiny and pale and shy.

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LOVE KNOWS THE TRUTH

EDITH C. CARTER.

Love knows the truth! No sudden shaft of light,Cleaving the darkness of a sleeping world,Speeds with a swifter, surer, gladder flightTo wake the sweetness in soft petals furledThan wings Love's thought of truth.
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UNITY

LAURA GERAHTY

It is not just because our eyes are meetingIn daily converse, that we claim a friend;It is not e'en because our hearts are beatingSo near each other that our pulses blend.
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BY LOVE ALONE

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

Crouched in the roadside dust, which powdered whiteThe sorry rags that witnessed to his want,The mendicant mouthed prayers for passing alms.

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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From Safety

A safe refuge

Trust in God opens the door to a safe refuge, always available and always at hand.

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MAN'S DWELLING-PLACE

HELEN WARD BANKS.

Why do we let our thoughts run to and froO'er the low levels of this restless earth?
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JUDAS

ADA J. MILLER.

For thirty bits of silver stamped as coinOur Master was betrayed by one who knewAnd walked with him along the way;But walked and talked as sleeper in a dream.
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UNITY IMMORTAL

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

Unfold more fully to our sight,O Love that holdeth all in one;As separate rays converge in light,Meet we in God, our central sun.
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THE MIST DISPELLED

JEANIE F. GIBB

As creeps the mist o'er hill and glenAll silently, and shuts from sightThe sun that cheers the hearts of menAnd makes all nature glad and bright,
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RESIGNATION

WARWICK JAMES PRICE

One doth misuse the word who fails to tryTo rise,—stretched prone upon the muddy ground,Tripped by the load which mortal sense has boundUpon his back,—"I am resigned!" his cry.
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A LESSON FROM A FLOWER

MABEL DOBYNS WEIL

Weary and worn, with care and worry spent,Into the deep and quiet wood I wentAnd lay me down to rest upon a mossy bankWhere purple violets in rich profusion grew,And happy birdsong echoed all the woodland through.