Poems

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.

IN God we are. O blessed thought Through which Christ's miracles are wrought.

O GOD, Our Father in Thy light, All darkness flees away; Thou fountain of immortal bliss, Revealing perfect day. While in this stream of golden light, We bathe our spirits now, We live anew, we lose our guilt, And to Thy Love we bow.

Oh hated envy! 'tis thine to criticise The well-meant efforts of the good and wise. To blight the hopes of him whose aim is higher Than thou thyself wouldst venture to aspire; To cast a slur upon each honest deed, And grudgingly allow the well-earned meed; Most reprehensible, in great minds seen; Most lamentable, in the weak and mean; Thou art the foster-mother of foul hate That scoffs because it cannot imitate.

With thought wide open to error's sea Is heard the billow's roar. While Truth's unbroken harmony Rolls on its peaceful shore.

Again across a night of doubt and sin Dawns the pure beam of Truth, and its bright star Has led the wise men from the strife and din Of error's wide domain, to journey far; To where in humble guise the fair Christ-child, Conceived in purity, brought forth in Love, Waits to redeem a world, by sense defiled, And step by step to guide to joys above. Unchanging Truth the wonder doth repeat Of "word made flesh" for weary mortals cheer; A new-born light reveals the chain complete That circles round the everlasting years.

With joy and unalloyed delight, We greet thee, Christian Science; And gladly join thee in the fight, That bids disease defiance. That bids mankind look up and hope, God's truth at last revealing.

OH , wanderer in the valley of matter and of sin, Hearest thou the loving message: "Beloved, enter in?" The call is now and ever: "Come unto me and rest," From sorrow, sin and sickness,—oh, listen and be blest. This valley is enveloped in shadows weird and dim, And they who tread its mazes, see never aught of him Who walked the vale of shadows, and climbed the Mountain height, And showed the world the pathway from darkness unto light.