Four Things
Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly;
To love his fellow-men sincerely;
To act from honest motives purely;
To trust in God and Heaven securely.
More poems by Henry Van Dyke
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A Wayfaring Song
From The Outlook
O WHO will walk a mile with me
Along life’s merry way? … -
An Angler's Wish
I
when tulips bloom in Union Square,
And timid breaths of vernal air … -
Roslin and Hawthornden
Fair roslin Chapel, how divine
The art that reared thy costly shrine!
Thy carven columns must have grown … -
Tennyson
From the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,
To the singing tides of heaven, and the light more clear than noon,
Passed a soul that grew to music till it was with God in tune. …