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• Comfort

  Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
  From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The Secret of Death

  “she is dead!” they said to him; “come away;
  Kiss her and leave her,—thy love is clay!”
  They smoothed her tresses of dark brown hair; …

  Sir Edwin Arnold

• Footsteps of Angels

  When the hours of day are numbered,
  And the voices of the night
  Wake the better soul that slumbered …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• “Happy are the dead”

  I Walked the other day, to spend my hour,
  Into a field,
  Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield …

  Henry Vaughan

• “The green grass under the snow”

  The Work of the sun is slow,
  But as sure as heaven, we know;
  So we ’ll not forget, …

  Annie A. Preston

• “Thou art gone to the grave”

  Thou art gone to the grave—but we will not deplore thee,
  Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb;
  The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, …

  Reginald Heber

• After Death in Arabia

  Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
  From “Pearls of the Faith”
  He made life—and He takes it—but instead …

  From the Arabic

• “There is no death”

  There is no death! the stars go down
  To rise upon some other shore,
  And bright in heaven’s jewelled crown …

  J. L. McCreery

• Going and Coming

  GOING—the great round Sun,
  Dragging the captive Day
  Over behind the frowning hill, …

  Edward A. Jenks

• Blind

  Laughing, the blind boys
  Run ’round their college lawn,
  Playing such games of buff …

  Israel Zangwill

• The Death of Death

  Sonnet Cxlvi.
  poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
  Fooled by those rebel powers that thee array, …

  William Shakespeare

• “God is everywhere”

  A Trodden daisy, from the sward,
  With tearful eye I took,
  And on its ruined glories I, …

  Robert Nicoll

• “Our God, our help in ages past”

  Our God, our help in ages past,
  Our hope for years to come,
  Our shelter from the stormy blast, …

  Isaac Watts

• “A mighty fortress is our God”

  From the German by Frederic Henry Hedge
  “Ein’ Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott”
  A MIGHTY fortress is our God, …

  Martin Luther

• Delight in God

  I Love, and have some cause to love, the earth,—
  She is my Maker’s creature, therefore good;
  She is my mother, for she gave me birth; …

  Francis Quarles

• The Will of God

  I Worship thee, sweet will of God!
  And all thy ways adore;
  And every day I live, I seem …

  Frederick William Faber

• The Voyage

  Whichever way the wind doth blow,
  Some heart is glad to have it so;
  Then blow it east or blow it west, …

  Caroline Atherton Mason

• The Love of God

  Thou Grace Divine, encircling all,
  A soundless, shoreless sea!
  Wherein at last our souls must fall, …

  Eliza Scudder

• Praise to God

  Praise to God, immortal praise,
  For the love that crowns our days—
  Bounteous source of every joy, …

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

• “Lead, kindly Light”

  Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
  Lead thou me on!
  The night is dark, and I am far from home,— …

  John Henry Newman

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