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• Per Pacem ad Lucem

  I Do not ask, O Lord, that life may be
  A pleasant road;
  I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from me …

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• The Martyrs’ Hymn

  From the German by William Johnson Fox
  FLUNG to the heedless winds,
  Or on the waters cast, …

  Martin Luther

• The Pilgrimage

  Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
  My staff of faith to walk upon,
  My scrip of joy, immortal diet, …

  Sir Walter Raleigh

• The Master’s Touch

  In the still air the music lies unheard;
  In the rough marble beauty hides unseen:
  To make the music and the beauty, needs …

  Horatius Bonar

• The Faithful Angel

  From “Paradise Lost,” Book V.
  THE SERAPH Abdiel, faithful found
  Among the faithless, faithful only he; …

  John Milton

• Low Spirits

  Fever and fret and aimless stir
  And disappointed strife,
  All chafing, unsuccessful things, …

  Frederick William Faber

• “I saw Thee”

  “When thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.”—JOHN i. 48.
  I SAW thee when, as twilight fell,
  And evening lit her fairest star, …

  Ray Palmer

• Losse in Delayes

  Shun delayes, they breed remorse,
  Take thy time while time doth serve thee,
  Creeping snayles have weakest force, …

  Robert Southwell

• The Seed Growing Secretly

  Dear, secret greenness! nurst below
  Tempests and winds and winter nights!
  Vex not, that but One sees thee grow; …

  Henry Vaughan

• Patience

  She hath no beauty in her face
  Unless the chastened sweetness there,
  And meek long-suffering, yield a grace …

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

• Sometime

  Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned,
  And sun and stars forevermore have set,
  The things which our weak judgments here have spurned, …

  May Riley Smith

• Father, Thy Will be Done!

  He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,
  Alike they ’re needful for the flower;
  And joys and tears alike are sent …

  Sarah Flower Adams

• Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster

  E’en such is time; that takes in trust
  Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
  And pays us but with earth and dust; …

  Sir Walter Raleigh

• My Ain Countree

  “But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly.”—HEBREWS xi. 16.
  I ’M far frae my hame, an’ I ’m weary aftenwhiles,
  For the langed-for hame-bringing, an’ my Father’s welcome smiles; …

  Mary Lee Demarest

• Coming

  “At even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning.”—MARK xiii. 35.
  “IT may be in the evening,
  When the work of the day is done, …

  Barbara Miller MacAndrew

• Euthanasia

  Methinks, when on the languid eye
  Life’s autumn scenes grow dim;
  When evening’s shadows veil the sky; …

  Willis Gaylord Clark

• The Last Man

  All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,
  The Sun himself must die,
  Before this mortal shall assume …

  Thomas Campbell

• When

  If I were told that I must die to-morrow,
  That the next sun
  Which sinks should bear me past all fear and sorrow …

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

• Burial of Moses

  “And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”—DEUTERONOMY xxxiv. 6.
  BY Nebo’s lonely mountain,
  On this side Jordan’s wave, …

  Cecil Frances Alexander

• The Resignation

  O God, whose thunder shakes the sky,
  Whose eye this atom globe surveys,
  To thee, my only rock, I fly, …

  Thomas Chatterton

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