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• The Laborer

  Stand up—erect! Thou hast the form
  And likeness of thy God!—Who more?
  A soul as dauntless ’mid the storm …

  William Davis Gallagher

• A True Lent

  Is this a fast,—to keep
  The larder lean,
  And clean …

  Robert Herrick

• From “The Church Porch”

  Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance
  Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,
  Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance …

  George Herbert

• Briefs

  Water Turned INTO WINE
  THE CONSCIOUS water saw its God and blushed.
  THE WIDOW’S MITES …

  Richard Crashaw

• Jewish Hymn in Babylon

  God of the thunder! from whose cloudy seat
  The fiery winds of Desolation flow;
  Father of vengeance, that with purple feet …

  Henry Hart Milman

• Example

  We scatter seeds with careless hand,
  And dream we ne’er shall see them more;
  But for a thousand years …

  John Keble

• Small Beginnings

  A Traveller through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;
  And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree.
  Love sought its shade, at evening time, to breath its early vows; …

  Charles Mackay

• “I would I were an excellent divine”

  I Would I were an excellent divine,
  That had the Bible at my fingers’ ends;
  That men might hear out of this mouth of mine …

  Nicholas Breton

• The Pastor’s Reverie

  The Pastor sits in his easy-chair,
  With the Bible upon his knee.
  From gold to purple the clouds in the west …

  Washington Gladden

• The Two Rabbis

  The Rabbi NATHAN, twoscore years and ten,
  Walked blameless through the evil world, and then
  Just as the almond blossomed in his hair, …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• Judge Not

  Judge not; the workings of his brain
  And of his heart thou canst not see;
  What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, …

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• To the Unco Guid

  “My son, these maxims make a rule
  And lump them aye thegither:
  The Rigid Righteous is a fool, …

  Robert Burns

• “Stone the woman, let the man go free”

  Yes, stone the woman, let the man go free!
  Draw back your skirts, lest they perchance may touch
  Her garment as she passes; but to him …

  Anonymous

• In Prison

  God pity the wretched prisoners,
  In their lonely cells to-day!
  Whatever the sins that tripped them, …

  May Riley Smith

• Conscience and Remorse

  “good-bye,” I said to my Conscience—
  “Good-bye for aye and aye;”
  And I put her hands off harshly, …

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Found Wanting

  Belshazzar had a letter,—
  He never had but one;
  Belshazzar’s correspondent …

  Emily Dickinson

• Dallying with Temptation

  From the First Part of “Wallenstein,” Act III. Sc. 4.
  WALLENSTEIN (in soliloquy). Is it possible?
  Is ’t so? I can no longer what I would! …

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Easy to Drift

  Easy to drift to the open sea,
  The tides are eager and swift and strong,
  And whistling and free are the rushing winds,— …

  Oliver Huckel

• The Foolish Virgins

  From “Idyls of the King: Guinevere”
  THE QUEEN looked up, and said,
  “O maiden, if indeed you list to sing, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Up Hill

  Does the road wind up hill all the way?
  Yes, to the very end.
  Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

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