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Poems

Mary Magdalene

W. K. James

In her last ministry of love, the MagdaleneStands hopeless, weeping at the Saviour's empty grave,Yet by her side the Master stands unseen,Not lost, not gone, not dead, but mighty still to save.

Sonnet

William Lyman Johnson

Why ape the ways of blindly-followed precedentThat barriers all roads to eternityWhen veils of fatuous hypocrisyBy one great mind have long in shreds been rent?

When Pa Gets Sick

When pa gets sick he always knowsHe's gonter die and Tommy goesFor Dr.

The Way

Keyes Becker

Bare was the cross, and gray,But in the dreary province of the tombThe body of our Saviour lay,Awaiting resurrection from its gloom.

Prayer

BY R. L. Z.

Dear God my heart inclines to Thee,Help me to know Thy living Way;For Thou art Light dispelling gloomRevealing an eternal day.

Stanzas on Freedom

James Russell Lowell

Men! whose boast it is that yeCome of fathers brave and free,If there breathe on earth a slaveAre ye truly free and brave?

Watch and Pray

BY JAMES J. ROME.

When in temptation's darkest hour,I heard the Saviour say:"Watch when the clouds around thee lower,Be faithful, watch, and pray.

If

If men would cease to worryAnd women cease to sigh,Doctors would have to plod afootInstead of riding by.

A Prophecy

Walt Whitman

I CHANT the world on my western sea.

Alphabet Of Proverbs

A grain of prudence far outweighs a pound of cunning craft.

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They sawed off his arms and his legs,...

Cleveland Leader

They sawed off his arms and his legs,They took out his jugular vein;They put fancy frills on his lungs,And they deftly extracted his brain.