Poems

ONE LIFE, ONE LOVE

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

Great vault of heaven, how blue and vast you are!And hoary mountains—steadfast stand ye yet!The trees, the flowers, the distant watchful star—On you I gaze enraptured and forgetThe sordid sense of separation.

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"A CALL"

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

O Judah , scattered on the hills of scorn,Uncared, un-shepherded, forsook, forlorn,Dar'st thou, in this thy day, bid sorrows cease?

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"THY LOVING-KINDNESS"

F. B. G.

Because Thy loving-kindnessIs better far than life;Because my helper Thou hast beenIn many a bitter strife;Because Thy love restrains from pathsWhere sin and fear are rife;In Thee, O True and Tried!"My soul is satisfied.

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WITHOUT VARIABLENESS

ELOISE CAMERON MAC GREGOR.

O TRUST in Spirit, when the twilight darkens,And scenes of daytime vanish like a dream;Love, the unchanging, to your least thought hearkens.

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Pass it On

MRS. H. RUTHVEN MC DONALD.

Comes a word of hope to you?

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At Last

M. BETTIE BELL.

At last, I saw the light.

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At-One With Thee

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

AT-ONE with Thee, upon the shore of timeWe stand in silent awe, at-one with Thee!And know Love is in all eternityThe only law sublime.

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The Swallows' Lesson.

BEN. HAWORTH-BOOTH.

I DEEMED, before mine eyes beheld the light,—When life was young, when I believed the storyOf wise incompetence and darkened sight,—That He, the Lord of love, the God of glory,Was even a tyrant, terrible and gory,Eager to hurl His foolish children hence,As rocks by Cyclops off their promontory,Into the foul abyss of hatred, whenceIs no return, no hope, no prayer, no penitence.