Poems

Not for tomorrow does the promise read,...

Ethel B. Cheney

Not for tomorrow does the promise read, But grace today to fill each present need; Each day to feel Love's all-sustaining power; Each day to know that Life is man's great dower; Each day to grow still more to understand That all things good and true are from His hand; And, trusting daily in His tender care, To climb the hilltops and find angels there.

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THE HOUSE OF LIFE

HARRIET F. PICKARD.

O Love! O Love divine! didst ThouIn very truth draw near?

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Out of th' abysmal past,...

T. E. Scantlin

Out of th' abysmal past,Up from the Stygian darkness drawn,Into the light at last—gate unbarred—escapes the dawn.

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RECOMPENSE

LILLA ELLEN BOWLEY.

Gone! all the struggle and the vain regret.

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I am in the midst of some marvelous reading

Anon

I am in the midst of some marvelous reading.

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SELF -QUESTIONING

FRANCIS E. FALKENBURY.

Have I no faith today,That I go halting on the road to God ?

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THE FALSE AND THE REAL

LAURA GERAHTY.

I Thought I loved — but when the sun was shiningI caught the shadows only, on the grass.

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"REVELATION."

VIOLET KER SEYMER.

A heav'nly  yearning rises in my heartTo pierce beyond the shifting veil of sense,To see all Thou beholdest, all Thou art,To know what underlies this frail pretense.

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CONFIDENCE

KATHARINE J. SMITH.

Night found me in a pathless way and drear,Halting before the temper of the hail;I looked to train my steps, but groped in fear;I prayed with hapless patience to availOne favor of the beam-bestowing moon.

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PROTECTION AT NIGHT

JANE DRANSFIELD STONE.

We cannot be alone, for thou art near!What though the midnight shadows close us round,And terror seems to lurk in sight and sound:Still are we safe, since thou, O Christ, art here!