Poems

PERSPECTIVE

MARION COOK

With face close-pressed 'gainst this o'ershadowing wallOf dense materiality, which seemsImpenetrable, immeasurably tall,Opaque; defiant of our sorry plight,Which thus permits no glance to left or right.

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LOVE IMMORTAL

Frederick Lawrence Knowles

Sects, ye have your day and die,Eddies in the stream of truth,—The great current, sweeping by,Leaves you swirled in shapes uncouth,Born to writhe, and glint, and woo—Broken mirrors of the Blue.

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THE ALLNESS OF GOOD

MARY WHEELER

Good is omnipotent,Evil but seems;Love watcheth over all,Fears are but dreams.

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RECOMPENSE

JNO. M. DEAN

Let the dead past its haunting vigil keepO'er earthly hopes long buried in the dust;Yesterday's ghostly shapes but make us weepFor moth and canker-worm and clinging rust.

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"HE IS FAITHFUL THAT PROMISED"

GERTRUDE RING

"Lo, I am with you alway.

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PROMISE

ANNIE DINSMORE MC CLURE

A gust of March came eddying through my doorFrom greening fields and orchards, where it toreThis little rosy petal—one alone,A syllable of spring, unfriendly blownFrom parent tree in parallels unknown.

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THE WINNER

Lilla Elizabeth Kelley

When the battle waxes fiercest,When the blows fall thick and fast,With full courage, reinspired,We shall gain the height at last.

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THE SHEPHERD

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH

Ah , gentle shepherd of the moor and hill,Though cold the comfort of the wintry wold,Though frozen be the fountain and the rill,And wolves await the wanderer from the fold,—We hear thy mountain horn and fearful hearts growbold.

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WORSHIP

MARY MC D. SANTLEY

Our Father, God, unchanging Love,We lift our thought to Thee;All grace Thou art—below, above—All power and majesty.

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HEAVEN IS WITHIN

HAROLD SUSMAN

The weary world has gone to sleep,Is lulled at last in slumbers deep,And ever dreams of sin;It dreams that evil here must stay,That goodness is far, far away,—But heaven is within!