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"I WILL ABIDE IN THINE HOUSE."

AMONG SO many, can He care?
Can special love be everywhere?
A myriad homes, -a myriad ways, -
And God's eye over every place.

Over; but in? The world is full;
A grand omnipotence must rule;
But is there life that doth abide
With mine own living, side by side?

So many, and so wide abroad:
Can any heart have all of God?
From the great spaces, vague and dim,
May one small household gather Him?

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We watched it glide from the silver sands, | A scar, brought from some well-won field, And all our sunshine grew strangely Where thou wouldst only faint and yield. dark.

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All sights were mellowed and all sounds subdued,

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And where the oriole hung her swaying nest,

By every light wind like a censer
swung:-

Where sang the noisy masons of the eaves,
The busy swallows circling ever near,
Foreboding, as the rustic mind believes,
An early, harvest and a plenteous
year;-

Where every bird which charmed the
vernal feast,

Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at morn,

To warn the reaper of the rosy east,

All now was songless, empty, and forlorn.

Alone from out the stubble piped the quail, And croaked the crow through all the dreamy gloom;

The hills seemed farther and the streams Alone the pheasant, drumming in the vale,

sang low;

As in a dream the distant woodman hewed His winter log with many a muffled blow.

The embattled forests, erewhile armed in gold,

Their banners bright with every martial hue,

Now stood, like some sad beaten host of old,

Withdrawn afar in Time's remotest

blue.

On slumb'rous wings the vulture held his flight;

The dove scarce heard its sighing mate's complaint;

And like a star slow drowning in the light, The village church-vane seemed to pale and faint.

The sentinel-cock upon the hillside crew,
Crew thrice, and all was stiller than
before,-

Silent till some replying warder blew
His alien horn, and then was heard no

more.

Where erst the jay, within the elm's tall crest,

Made garrulous trouble round her unfledged young,

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