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• De Sheepfol’

  De massa ob de sheepfol’,
  Dat guards de sheepfol’ bin,
  Look out in de gloomerin’ meadows, …

  Sarah Pratt M’Lean Greene

• Dies Iræ

  From the Latin by John A. Dix 1
  “That day, a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers!”
  —ZEPHANIAH i. …

  Thomas à Celano

• Prayer

  Anonymous translation
  O GOD! though sorrow be my fate,
  And the world’s hate …

  Mary, Queen of Hungary

• “Why thus longing?”

  Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
  For the far off, unattained, and dim,
  While the beautiful, all round thee lying, …

  Harriet Winslow Sewall

• Faith

  O World, thou choosest not the better part!
  It is not wisdom to be only wise,
  And on the inward vision close the eyes, …

  George Santayana

• The Call

  Come, my way, my truth, my life—
  Such a way as gives us breath;
  Such a truth as ends all strife; …

  George Herbert

• Hope

  From “The Pleasures of Hope” 1
  UNFADING Hope! when life’s last embers burn,
  When soul to soul, and dust to dust return! …

  Thomas Campbell

• Santa Filomena

  [Florence Nightingale]
  WHENE’ER a noble deed is wrought,
  Whene’er is spoken a noble thought, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Love

  If suddenly upon the street
  My gracious Saviour I should meet,
  And he should say, “As I love thee, …

  Charles Francis Richardson

• Vesper Hymn

  The Day is done; the weary day of thought and toil is past,
  Soft falls the twilight cool and gray on the tired earth at last:
  By wisest teachers wearied, by gentlest friends oppressed, …

  Eliza Scudder

• The Word

  O Word of God incarnate,
  O Wisdom from on high,
  O Truth unchanged, unchanging, …

  William Walsham How

• Peace

  Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,
  Let me once know.
  I sought thee in a secret cave; …

  George Herbert

• Peace

  IS this the peace of God, this strange sweet calm?
  The weary day is at its zenith still,
  Yet ’t is as if beside some cool, clear rill, …

  Frances Ridley Havergal

• Devotion

  THE Immortal gods
  Accept the meanest altars, that are raised
  By pure devotion; and sometimes prefer …

  Philip Massinger

• Life

  It is not life upon thy gifts to live,
  But to grow fixed with deeper roots in Thee;
  And when the sun and showers their bounties give, …

  Jones Very

• The Gifts of God

  WHEN God at first made man,
  Having a glass of blessings standing by,
  Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: …

  George Herbert

• The World

  “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.”—JOHN xvi. 8.
  THE WORLD is wise, for the world is old;
  Five thousand years their tale have told; …

  Frederick William Faber

• Conscience

  Anonymous translation from the Latin
  From Satire XIII.
  THE SPARTAN rogue who, boldly bent on fraud, …

  Juvenal

• Passing Away

  Was it the chime of a tiny bell
  That came so sweet to my dreaming ear,
  Like the silvery tones of a fairy’s shell …

  John Pierpont

• Epilogue

  At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
  When you set your fancies free,
  Will they pass to where—by death, fools think, imprisoned— …

  Robert Browning

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