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And love of me. went up with Thee

To sit upon Thy Father's Throne:

Thou lovest me

Thy little one.

Lord, as Thou me, so would I Thee
Love in pure love's communion,

For Thou lov'st me

Thy little one:

Which love of me brings back with Thee To Judgment when the Trump is blown,

Still loving me
Thy little one.

AN EASTER CAROL.

PRING bursts to-day,

SP

For Christ is risen and all the earth's

at play.

Flash forth, thou Sun,

The rain is over and gone, its work is done.

Winter is past,

Sweet Spring is come at last, is come at last.

Bud, Fig and Vine,

Bud, Olive, fat with fruit and oil and wine.

Break forth this morn

In roses, thou but yesterday a Thorn.

Uplift thy head,

O pure white Lily through the Winter dead.

Beside your dams

Leap and rejoice, you merry-making Lambs.

All Herds and Flocks

Rejoice, all Beasts of thickets and of rocks.

Sing, Creatures, sing,

Angels and Men and Birds and everything.

All notes of Doves

Fill all our world: this is the time of loves.

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"BEHOLD A SHAKING."

I.

AN rising to the doom that shall not err,

MAN

Which hath most dread: the arouse of all or

each;

All kindreds of all nations of all speech,

Or one by one of him and him and her?

While dust reanimate begins to stir

Here, there, beyond, beyond, reach beyond reach ; While every wave refashions on the beach

Alive or dead-in-life some seafarer.

Now meeting doth not join or parting part;
True meeting and true parting wait till then,
When whoso meet are joined for evermore,
Face answering face and heart at rest in heart :
God bring us all rejoicing to the shore

Of happy Heaven, His sheep home to the pen.

2.

Blessed that flock safe penned in Paradise ;
Blessed this flock which tramps in weary ways;

All form one flock, God's flock; all yield Him praise

By joy or pain, still tending toward the prize.
Joy speaks in praises there, and sings and flies
Where no night is, exulting all its days;

Here, pain finds solace, for, behold, it prays;
In both love lives the life that never dies.
Here life is the beginning of our death,

And death the starting-point whence life ensues;
Surely our life is death, our death is life:
Nor need we lay to heart our peace or strife,
But calm in faith and patience breathe the breath
God gave, to take again when He shall choose.

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