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Looking, where duty is desire,
To him, the beautiful and good.

Gone be the faithlessness of fear,

And let the pitying heaven's sweet rain

Wash out the altar's bloody stain; The law of Hatred disappear,

The law of Love alone remain.

How fall the idols false and grim!
And lo! their hideous wreck above

The emblems of the Lamb and Dove!

Stands a great city in the sky's sad raining,

Bareheaded and wet-eyed!

Silent for once the restless hive of labor,
Save the low funeral tread,
Or voice of craftsman whispering to his
neighbor

The good deeds of the dead.

For him no minster's chant of the immortals

Rose from the lips of sin;

Man turns from God, not God from No mitred priest swung back the heav

him;

And guilt, in suffering, whispers

Love!

The world sits at the feet of Christ,

Unknowing, blind, and unconsoled;

enly portals

To let the white soul in.

But Age and Sickness framed their tear

ful faces

In the low hovel's door,

It yet shall touch his garment's fold, And prayers went up from all the dark

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Whose blue waves keep with Capri's sil- For never yet, with ritual pomp and

ver fountains

Perpetual holiday,

A king lies dead, his wafer duly eaten, His gold-bought masses given;

And Rome's great altar smokes with gums to sweeten

Her foulest gift to Heaven.

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Has England's turf closed o'er.

And if there fell from out her grand old steeples

No crash of brazen wail,

And while all Naples thrills with mute The murmurous woe of kindreds,

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With a true sorrow God rebukes that Of Indian islands in the sun-smit shad

feigning;

By lone Edgbaston's side

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Of Occidental palms ;

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From the locked roadsteads of the | Still a large faith in human-kind he

Bothnian peasants,

And harbors of the Finn,

Where war's worn victims saw his gentle

presence

Come sailing, Christ-like, in,

cherished,

And in God's love for all.

And now he rests: his greatness and his

sweetness

No more shall seem at strife;

To seek the lost, to build the old waste And death has moulded into calm complaces,

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pleteness

The statue of his life.

Where the dews glisten and the songbirds warble,

His dust to dust is laid,

Thanks for the good man's beautiful In Nature's keeping, with no pomp of

example,

Who in the vilest saw

Some sacred crypt or altar of a temple

Still vocal with God's law;

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That they who judged him by his A presence melted through my mood,

strength or weakness

Saw but a single side.

A warmth, a light, a sense of good, Like sunshine through a winter wood.

Men failed, betrayed him, but his zeal I saw that presence, mailed complete

seemed nourished

By failure and by fall;

In her white innocence, pause to greet A fallen sister of the street.

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Yet still the wilding flowers would Her wild birds sing the same sweet stave,

blow,

The golden leaves would fall,

The seasons come, the seasons go,
And God be good to all.

Above the graves the blackberry hung
In bloom and green its wreath,
And harebells swung as if they rung
The chimes of peace beneath.

The beauty Nature loves to share,

The gifts she hath for all, The common light, the common air, O'ercrept the graveyard's wall.

It knew the glow of eventide, The sunrise and the noon, And glorified and sanctified

It slept beneath the moon.

With flowers or snow-flakes for its sod, Around the seasons ran,

And evermore the love of God

Rebuked the fear of man.

We dwell with fears on either hand, Within a daily strife,

And spectral problems waiting stand Before the gates of life.

The doubts we vainly seek to solve,
The truths we know, are one;
The known and nameless stars revolve
Around the Central Sun.

And if we reap as we have sown, And take the dole we deal, The law of pain is love alone, The wounding is to heal.

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Like the march of soundless music
Through the vision of the seer,
More of feeling than of hearing,

Of the heart than of the ear,
She knew the droning pibroch,
She knew the Campbell's call:
"Hark! hear ye no' MacGregor's,
The grandest o' them all!'

O, they listened, dumb and breathless,
And they caught the sound at last;
Faint and far beyond the Goomtee
Rose and fell the piper's blast!
Then a burst of wild thanksgiving
Mingled woman's voice and man's;
"God be praised!
the march of Have-

lock!
The piping of the clans !"

Louder, nearer, fierce as vengeance,
Sharp and shrill as swords at strife,
Came the wild MacGregor's clan-call,
Stinging all the air to life.

But when the far-off dust-cloud
To plaided legions grew,
Full tenderly and blithesomely
The pipes of rescue blew !

Round the silver domes of Lucknow,
Moslem mosque and Pagan shrine,
Breathed the air to Britons dearest,

The air of Auld Lang Syne.
O'er the cruel roll of war-drums
Rose that sweet and homelike strain;
And the tartan clove the turban,
As the Goomtee cleaves the plain.

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MY PSALM.

I MOURN no more my vanished years:
Beneath a tender rain,

An April rain of smiles and tears,
My heart is young again.

The west-winds blow, and, singing low,
I hear the glad streams run;
The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

I plough no more a desert land,
To harvest weed and tare;
The manna dropping from God's hand
Rebukes my painful care.

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