Poems

Matt. 1, 18; Eph.

NOW flees the night across the hills, For ravening spite and fateful wills Have wrought Love's saving wonder. Lo; The sepulchres supernal glow; for He Is risen.

SO stood of old the holy Christ Amidst the suffering throng; With whom his lightest touch sufficed To make the weakest strong. That healing gift he lends to them Who use it in his name; The power that filled his garment's hem Is evermore the same.

UP, Pilgrim, Up! Earth's false fires fail To light thy onward way, Thy task? To cross yon shadowed vale, Ere dawns eternal Day. Fear not to tread the tangled wild, Fear not the ambushed foe, The Father's angels guard the child, And Faith and strength bestow.

"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall lie do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I go to my Father. " Jesus.

Long years ago o'er Bethlehem There shone a star, Guiding by Love the three wise men From lands afar; Where in a lowly manger lay The Christ-child sweet. Wisdom and learning, reverent, knelt, Low at his feet.

With faith unshadowed by the night, Undazzled by the day, With hope that plumed thee for the flight, And courage to assay, God sent thee from the crowded ark, Christ-bearer, like the dove, To find, o'er sundering waters dark, New lands for conquering love. — John B.

Along the path that measures time We move in grooves which Mind evolves, And mirror forth a life sublime If guided by divine resolves. We trace the warp and woof of thought Which forms the tapestry of Mind, And in the tracing Truth is caught, Which is the Life of all mankind.

He sits enthroned who sits supreme Above the passions of his clay; Nor fears remorse, nor feels the scourge Of conscience at the end of day. He has no greed for wealth that's won By bargain in the marts of sin, Nor lust for fame whose paans mock The hollow heart that wails within.

O Lord of Life! Let Truth and Love Flow from thy servant's lips, To help some pilgrim rise above To everlasting bliss. O free his mind from sin and death, And let the words of Life Shine into every loving heart, And drive out hate and strife.