Poems and Verses Author:Mary Mapes Dodge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRUST. Though tangled hard life's knot may be, And wearily we rue it, The silent touch of Father Time Some day will sure undo it. Then hope and wait; Nothi... more »ng is late In the light that shines forever. We faint at heart, a friend is gone; We chafe at the world's harsh drilling; We tremble at sorrows on every side, At the myriad ways of killing. Yet, say we all, If a sparrow fall, The Lord keepeth count forever. He keepeth count. We come, we go, We speculate, toil and falter: But the measure to each of weal or woe, God only can give or alter. TRUST. 19 He sendeth light, He sendeth night, And change goes on forever. Why not take life with cheerful trust, With faith in the strength of weakness? The slenderest daisy rears its head With courage, yet with meekness. A sunny face Hath holy grace, To woo the sun forever. Forever and ever God's law prevails, Goodness and love are undying; Only the troubles and cares of earth Are winged from the first for flying. Our way we plow In the furrow "now"; But after the tilling and growing, the sheaf; Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf,— And God keepeth watch forever. WITH "H. H." IN COLORADO. INTENT the conscious mountains stood, The friendly blossoms nodded, As through the canon's lonely wood We two in silence plodded. The stillness owned our presence good; The very breeze that stirred our hair Whispered a gentle greeting; A grand, free courtesy was there, A welcome, from the summit bare Down to the brook's entreating. Stray warblers in the branches dark Shot through the leafy passes, While the long note of meadow-lark Rose from the neighboring grasses; The yellow lupines, spark on spark, WITH "H. H." IN COLORADO. 21 From the more open woodland way, Flashed t...« less