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Poems

AS WE FORGIVE

From the November 1937 issue of The Christian Science Journal


I dwelt content in my good place,
     Prepared, I thought, for me.
My brother came and took away
My place, my work, my happy day.
     Then nothing could I see
     But loss and lack and misery.

My heart was filled with grief and pain;
     Love is unjust, I cried,
And when I knelt in silent prayer
I found no consolation there;
     No peace was at my side,
     No heavenly presence did abide.

And then my slumbering thought awoke.
     O God, forgive, I pray:
The sin is mine, yea mine alone,
I do repent. I will atone.
     Then broke the light as day,
     And all my sorrow passed away!

I saw, in Truth, my needs were met
     Through God's own will divine.
Wherever I can serve Him best,
There is my place, my work, my rest.
     When I self will resign,
     My brother's good is one with mine.

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