Poems

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I need not leave the jostling world,...

Harriet McEwen Kimball

I need not leave the jostling world,Or wait 'till daily tasks are o'er,To fold my palms in secret prayerWithin the close-shut closet door.
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Thanksgiving

BY BERT POOLE

Eternal God of Life and Truth and Love,I thank Thee who hath to my soul conveyedA consciousness of spiritual birth.

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Changing your world

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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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Resolutions for the Day

Mary Baker G. Eddy

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Sorrow

BY MOWBRAY MARRAS.

Sorrow appearsCrowned with her diadem of tears.
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Christian Science

BY EUNICE POND ATHEY.

Untold are the mercies, untold are the blessings,Untold the glad songs that ring out to-night;Singing of peace, health, harmony, gladness,Brought to our hearts by this radiant light.
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Forbear, Forgive, Forget

BY WILLIAM BRADFORD DICKSON

Forbear, strong heart, forbear;Let not the arrow dartWhich wounds the trusting heart;Forbear, strong heart, forbear.

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Anthology of classic articles III

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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June

James Russell Lowell

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;Everything is happy now,Everything is upward striving;'Tis as easy now for the heart to be trueAs for grass to be green or skies to be blue,—'Tis the natural way of living:Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
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Whence Comes the Spring?

Bliss Carman

Look, love, how the woods are all mistyWith purple and gray!And the soft mellow wind has a touchOf enchantment to-day.
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Chastity

BY EVELYN SYLVESTER.

Think chastely, and the thought shall beA wall of armor unto thee;Speak chastely, and thy words shall growTo noble deeds.
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Peace

BY HELEN SUTHERLAND.

Skies may lower and lightnings flash, The thunders o'er us roll; Truth lifts her promised bow aloft, And thought ascends to Soul.
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The Shadows that Attend Us

By CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.

The shadows that attend usBy ourselves are cast;The sunbeams that befriend us,From the heavens vast,Shine as free gifts to all as long as time shall last.
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In time to be...

Whittier

In time to be Shall holier altars rise to thee,—Thy Church our broad humanity!