JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM, thou City blest! Dear vision of celestial rest, Which far above the starry sky, Piled up with living stones on high, Art, as a Bride, encircled bright With million…
GOD OF GOD, LIGHT OF LIGHT, VERY GOD OF VERY GOD
ζοφεράς τριχυμίας. Fierce was the wild billow; Dark was the night; Oars labored heavily; Foam glimmered white; Trembled the mariners; Peril was high: Then said the God of God, —“Peace!…
HAVE MERCY!
LORD, many times I am aweary quite Of mine own self, my sin, my vanity; Yet be not Thou — or I am lost outright — Weary of me. And…
RESIGNATION
THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair! The air is full of…
THE ROYAL BANNERS
THE Royal Banners forward go; The Cross shines forth in mystic glow; Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made, Our sentence bore, our ransom paid. There whilst He hung,…
THE FLOWERS OF GOD
The welcome flowers are blossoming, In joyous troops revealed; They lift their dewy buds and bells In garden, mead, and field: They lurk in every sunless path, Where forest children…
THE ECHOES OF THE ANGELS’ SONG
"Glory be to God on high!" Such the wondrous story: Hark! an earthly echo hears And sends back — the "Glory!" "Peace on earth! good will to men!" Thus the…
CHRISTMAS EVEN
DARK night broods o'er the city, Veiling the Temple's sheen, And o'er the fields where shepherds keep Their sheep in Palestine. Dark night is on the nations; Blind Pharisee and…
GOD’S-ACRE
I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just: It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust. God’s-Acre!…
Yellowstone-National-Park
Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km2), comprising lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges. Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North…