The Changed Cross: And Other Religious Poems

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A. D. F. Randolph & Company, 1866 - 228 pages

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Page 31 - One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach.
Page 86 - MUST Jesus bear the cross alone, And all the world go free ? No, there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me.
Page 17 - I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro ; Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know : I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Page 46 - I shall be soon ! Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home ! Sweet hope ! Lord, tarry not, but come.
Page 16 - Lord, when grace hath made me meet Thy blessed face to see ; For if Thy work on earth be sweet, What will Thy glory be...
Page 11 - Where a King, in kingly glory Such as earth has never known, Shall assume the righteous sceptre, Claim and wear the heavenly crown — Brother, we shall meet and rest 'Mid the holy and the blest.
Page 219 - Last of the laborers, thy feet I gain, Lord of the harvest! and my spirit grieves That I am burdened not so much with grain As with a heaviness of heart and brain ; Master, behold my sheaves.
Page 17 - And if some things I do not ask In my cup of blessing be, I would have my spirit filled the more With grateful love to Thee. More careful not to serve Thee much, But to please Thee perfectly.
Page 140 - Along the emblazoned wall. This was th-e bravest warrior That ever buckled sword ; This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word ; And never earth's philosopher Traced, with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truths half so snge As he wrote down for men.
Page 180 - Thou knowest all the future, — gleams of gladness By stormy clouds too quickly overcast ; Hours of sweet fellowship, and parting sadness, And the dark river to be crossed at last : Oh, what could confidence and hope afford To tread that path but this,

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