Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time.John Greenleaf Whittier
How dwarfed against his manliness She sees the poor pretension, The wants, the aims, the follies, born Of fashion and convention.
John Greenleaf Whittier
So fallen so lost the light withdrawn Which once he wore The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore.
John Greenleaf Whittier
We live by faith but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reasons voice and Gods, Natures and Dutys, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Masters footprints in our daily ways No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Making their lives a prayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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