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Poems

Lost Ideals

Adelaide A. Proctor

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife,Some pure ideal of a noble lifeThat once seemed possible?

Song's Eternity

Edwin Markham

Into the song of the Poet are builded the things that endure : The Pillars of Karnak will crumble but the song of Shelley is sure.

Life

Selected with contributions from Huntington Smith

There's nothing so easy as living, When we've learned the way to live;

"Thy Will Be Done"

E. Alfred Coil

"Thy will be done," I read one careless day, And thought, if thus I pray a slave I' ll be;

In the Book our Mother Read

Whittier

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, From all the flower-fields of the soul: And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mother read.

Life and Death

Ernest Crosby with contributions from Lyman Abbott

So he died for his faith.

The Burn

Henry Johnstone with contributions from Robert S. MacArthur

Go forth upon thy journey, little one, Make haste and run; Long miles on miles thy liquid foot must creepEre thou have leave to sleep.

Why Should'st Thou Fear?

BY MINNIE G. NEW.

Why should'st Thou fearWhen God is near?

The Hope of England

By ea and plain and mountain will spread the larger creed,The love that knows no border, the bond that knows no breed;

Sincerity

Bonar with contributions from J. R. Miller

Waste not thy being, back to HimWho freely gave it, freely give.

June

BY C. LOTHROP HIGGINS.

June , thou month of roses and fragrance sweet,When nature's offerings on every side we greet,O'er hill and dale, the wild flowers scattered free.

The Real Man

By Caroline Washburn Rockwood.

Out of all mists,Into all Light;Out of all wrong,Into the Right;Out of things false,Into the true;Out of death's clutch,Into Life new.