Poems

VISION

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"HARMLESS AS DOVES"

Grieve not for eagle's flight that sweeps the wideDim vastnesses beyond the cloud-hung peaks;That spurns the gentle lands and, restless, seeksThe spume-stung headlands where the cold rains rideThe hollow winds above the churning tide.

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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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HOSPITALITY OF THE CHRIST

Drawn to the radiance of the Christ they comeUnto the open door, so trustingly.

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MOTIVE

Would I have, while unwilling to earnor know, without intent to learn?

POSSIBILITY

Fear-darkened sense toldOnly of danger,Of wind and night, menace of raging sea,A frail craft's inadequacy.

CHURCH BUILDING

If our last nail were driven,Construction work all done,Our task would not be finished,Nor would our goal be won,

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MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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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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BEYOND THE SYMBOLS

Love etched a trillium in fragile whiteagainst the deepness of old winter's gray.

PENETRATION OF TRUTH

Truth penetrates all error;Yet not as agitated drillBoring through rock,But by its presence only.

ANSWER

You search the vague and distant hillsWith weary hope in anxious quest:"Horizons all are far away.

AGE OF SCIENCE

The compound at the Master's elevationincluded home and work and transportation,even talking with an earlier generation.

WHY DO I PRAY?

Is it for healing that I pray?

BE OF GOOD COURAGE

Be of good courage.