Poems

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Cheer Up

Anon

Cheer up! The sky is bluerThan it was a year ago;The very smiles are gladderAnd have a richer glow;The raining and the sunshineAre helping you and me—The world is growing betterThan it ever used to be.
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A Song of Thanksgiving

GEORGE AMBROSE DENNISON.

New-winged with truth, as never winged before—The Master's truth, reborn these latter days—Thanksgiving anthems ring from shore to shoreAround the pendant world, with joy and praise.

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto me"

EUGENIA BEATRICE MABURY.

O God , behold my open hands:Place Thou my work within;They emptied are of earthly gainAnd pleasurings of sin.

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Little Words

H. B. Keech

"Yes, you did, too!""I did not!"Thus the little quarrel started,Thus, by unkind little words,Two fond friends were parted.
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Life Quatrains

Alice Jennings

Seeing.
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Windows

WILLIAM B. TURNER.

Windows each, if our hearts be true,Are we to the hearts about us;Lighting the shades of their cold, gray worldWhich were dreary and dark without us.

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Shared reflections

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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The Dewdrop

JOHN W. FLAGG with contributions from PHILIP SIDNEY

What is that chaste, that sparkling thing,Which to the rose at dawn doth cling,And nestled near its throbbing breastPlays ardent lover while a guest?
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To a Waterfowl

W. C. BRYANT

Whither, midst falling dew,While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursueThy solitary way?
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The Standard of Love

EDNA WADSWORTH HUDSON

Let us lift up our hearts with a joy untoldFor this truth that has come to the lives of men,A standard that Love has for us unrolledAnd raised at the break of the day, again.
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"A Kiss for a Blow"

A. A. W.

What makes little children quite happy and good,And banishes tempers both naughty and rude?
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The Mother-Love

BARNET TOLDRIDGE

As to the downy nest the spent bird fliesAt sunset time; as to the waters grayMoves glad the trusting ship whose purpose diesWithout its strong upholding; as the dayGoes joyfully to night's embrace at last,And as the star, aweary far aboveWith its night-watching, hails the dawning vast—So rests, so hides the world in mother-love!
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If I can Live

HELEN HUNT JACKSON

If I can liveTo make some pale face brighter, and to giveA second lustre to some fear-dimmed eye,Or e'en impartOne throb of comfort to an aching heart,Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by;