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There shall be no Night There

No night of gloom to drop between our eyes

And smiling summer skies?

No slow-paced night of gnawing pain, to creep
Between our eyes and sleep?

No night of woe, to shut all dear delight
Out from our longing sight?

No night of sin, to grow and never cease
Betwixt our hearts and peace?

No night of death, to darken drearily
Between our souls and Thee?

Ah, through these nights guide us, sweet Lord, we

pray,

Up to that nightless Day.

W. M. L. JAY.

My own dim life should teach me this,
That life shall live forevermore,

Else earth is darkness to the core,

And dust and ashes all that is.

Alfred, LORD TENNYSON.

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Waiting

S little children in a darkened hall

At Christmas-tide await the opening door,

Eager to tread the fairy-haunted floor

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Around the tree with goodly gifts for all,
And in the dark unto each other call,
Trying to guess their happiness before, -
Or knowing elders eagerly implore

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To tell what fortune bright to them will fall, — Thus wait we in time's dim and narrow room, And with strange fancies or another's thought

Try to divine, before the curtain rise, The wondrous scene! Yet soon shall fly the gloom, And we shall see what patient ages sought,

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The Father's long-planned gift of Paradise.

CHARLES H. CRANDALL.

Jerusalem the Golden

ERUSALEM, the golden!
With milk and honey blest;
Beneath thy contemplation

Sink heart and voice opprest.
I know not, oh, I know not,

What joys await us there! What radiancy of glory!

What bliss beyond compare!

They stand, those halls of Sion,
All jubilant with song,
And bright with many an angel,
And all the martyr throng;
The Prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene;
The pastures of the blessèd

Are decked in glorious sheen.

There is the throne of David,

And there, from care released, The shout of them that triumph, The song of them that feast; And they who with their Leader Have conquered in the fight Forever and forever

Are clad in robes of white.

O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country
That eager hearts expect!

Jesus, in mercy bring us

To that dear land of rest!
Who art with God the Father,
And Spirit, ever blest.

S. BERNARD OF CLUNY.

My Risen Lord, I feel Thy Strong
Protection

Y risen Lord, I feel Thy strong protection;

Mise Thee stand among the graves to-day; MY

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I am the Way, the Life, the Resurrection,

I hear Thee say,

And all the burdens I have carried sadly
Grow light as blossoms on an April day;
My cross becomes a staff, I journey gladly
This Easter day.

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And I, I had come back to an empty nest

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Grief fills the room up of my absent child

One Writes that Other Friends Remain

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