. The hope of the world and other poems. TKUTH SHALL OUTLIVE YON GRANITE ROCKS. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. 87 PEACE ON EARTH. On Freedoms heights I see the camp fires burn,Where her brave soldiers, weary, lie asleep,While overhead the constellations keep Their nightly watch oer action sad and stern. Brave are these hearts, and manfully they spurn The traitors kiss,—they are no hirelings sheep;ThoiTgh babe and mother by the hearth-side weep, They heed them not, and though tlieir sad hearts turn To home and friends in watches of the night,. IN WATCHES UK THE NIGHT. 88 THE HOPE OF THE
. The hope of the world and other poems. TKUTH SHALL OUTLIVE YON GRANITE ROCKS. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. 87 PEACE ON EARTH. On Freedoms heights I see the camp fires burn,Where her brave soldiers, weary, lie asleep,While overhead the constellations keep Their nightly watch oer action sad and stern. Brave are these hearts, and manfully they spurn The traitors kiss,—they are no hirelings sheep;ThoiTgh babe and mother by the hearth-side weep, They heed them not, and though tlieir sad hearts turn To home and friends in watches of the night,. IN WATCHES UK THE NIGHT. 88 THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. At wars stem call they leap with wild Prince of Peace, when, will Thy kingdom come, When will this strife among Thy peojDle cease,When clear above the muffled fife and diiim Shall bleeding nations hear Gods hymn of peace? AS A LITTLE CHILD. The aged pilgrim goes with doubt and knocks, imcertain, at his Fathers child, with eager hands that cannot wait. Seeks entrance; God to him is very near. ECONOMY OF NATURE. Since first God called creation from dark void,And set His seal on all that He had made, !N^o molecule has ever been destroyed Or een an atom of His worlds mislaid. THE MIGHT OV LOVE. ^0 prison wall the might of Love can stay;Love nerves the hand that else were pottei-s clay;Love gives ns life; all thrungh, Love is our small ]>oginning, and our mighty end. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AND OTHER POEMS. 89 MEDITATION. The wind is singing to tJie gray old sea, The waves are
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