Poems

Admonition

MARY IRVING KEITH with contributions from DEAN STANLEY

Waste not the time men call "to-day," Spurn not the things at hand; The future holds no recompense For those who idly stand And wait The chances of a better fate.

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Error

EDNA WADSWORTH HUDSON with contributions from HENRY WILDER FOOTE

A shadow, that is all, A dream or an illusion; A sense of mistiness, Of mistake or confusion; It's just a thought which doth appear to be, When something seems between thy God and thee!

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Thoughts on Love

WILLIAM H. RUSSELL.

LOVE is the sweetness of a life hid with Christ in God.

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Open the Door

Open the door, let in the air,The winds are sweet and the flowers are fair;Joy is abroad in the world to-day.

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The Robin's Song

LAVILLA E. ALLEN.

There was a pretty robin with a lovely russet vest,And he sang so quaint and queerly as he sat beside his nest.

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The Heart of the Woods

Anon

I hear it beat in morning stillWhen April skies have lost their gloom,And through the woods there runs a thrillThat wakes arbutus into bloom.

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The Passing of Winter

Harry W. Bugbee

A gentle warmth is in the air that breathesOf rarest days, and even to the snowA kind of tender radiance bequeathsThat seems to speak of life that hides below.

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An Easter Song

Richard Le Gallienne with contributions from T. T. Munger

Arise , my heart, and sing thy Easter song!To the great anthem of returning bird,And sweetening bud, and green, ascending blade,Add thou thy word.

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Thou, thine own true self, in God hath place;...

M. P. H.

Thou, thine own true self, in God hath place;Forever thus through His dear grace.

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Our Daily Choice

SAMUEL GREENWOOD.

EACH day unfolds before usA way of love or hate;Sweet love that lives victoriousO'er every selfish state,Dark hate that bears the curse of CainThrough regions desolate.