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A FEW MORE VERSES.

BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.

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    UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.
    ———
    VERSES.

    BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.

    PRICE, $1.00.

    ROBERTS BROTHERS,
    PUBLISHERS.




A FEW MORE VERSES.

    BY SUSAN COOLIDGE,
    AUTHOR OF “VERSES.”


    BOSTON
    LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
    1907




    _Copyright, 1889_,
    BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

    Printers
    S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.


   _GIVING to all, thou gavest as well to me.
    A myriad thirsty shores await the tide:
    They drink and drink, and will not be denied;
    But not a drop less full the brimming Sea._

   _One tiny shell among the kelp and weed,
    One sand-grain where the beaches stretch away,—
    How shall the tide regard them? Yet each day
    It comes, and fills and satisfies their need._

   _What can the singing sands give to the Sea?
    What the dumb shell, though inly it rejoice?
    Only the echo of its own strong voice;—
    And this is all that here I bring to thee._




_A BENEDICTION._


   _GOD give thee, love, thy heart’s desire!
      What better can I pray?
    For though love falter not, nor tire,
      And stand on guard all day,
    How little can it know or do,
      How little can it say!_

   _How hard it strives, and how in vain,
      By hope and fear misled,
    To make the pathway soft and plain
      For the dear feet to tread,
    To shield from sun-beat and from rain
      The one beloved head!_

   _Its wisdom is made foolishness;
      Its best intent goes wrong;
    It curses where it fain would bless,
      Is weak instead of strong,—
    Marring with sad, discordant sighs
      The joyance of its song._

   _I do not dare to bless or ban,—
      I am too blind to see,—
    But this one little prayer I can
      Put up to God for thee,
    Because I know what fair, pure things
      Thy inmost wishes be;_

   _That what thy heart desires the most
      Is what he loves to grant,—
    The love that counteth not its cost
      If any crave or want;
    The presence of the Holy Ghost,
      The soul’s inhabitant;_

   _The wider vision of the mind;
      The spirit bright with sun;
    The temper like a fragrant wind,
      Chilling and grieving none;
    The quickened heart to know God’s will
      And on his errands run;_

   _The ministry of little things,—
      Not counted mean or small
    By that dear alchemy which brings
      Some grain of gold from all;
    The faith to wait as well as work,
      Whatever may befall._

   _So, sure of thee, and unafraid,
      I make my daily prayer,
    Nor fear that my blind zeal be made
      Thy injury or snare:
    God give thee, love, thy heart’s desire,
      And bless thee everywhere!_




CONTENTS TO PART SECOND.


                                                    PAGE
    To Arcite at the Wars                             13
    New every Morning                                 15
    Lohengrin                                         17
    A Single Stitch                                   19
    Reply                                             20
    Talitha Cumi                                      23
    The Better Way                                    25
    Forever                                           27
    Miracle                                           29
    Charlotte Brontë                                  32
    End and Means                                     34
    Comforted                                         36
    Words                                             39
    Influence                                         41
    An Easter Song                                    43
    So Long Ago                                       45
    A Birthday                                        47
    Derelict                                          49
    H. H                                              51
    Freedom                                           54
    The Vision and the Summons                        56
    Forecast                                          59
    Early Taken                                       61
    Some Lover’s Dear Thought                         64
    Ashes                                             66
    One Lesser Joy                                    68
    Close at Hand                                     71
    Only a Dream                                      73
    At the Altar                                      77
    Eternity                                          79
    Restfulness                                       81
    In and On                                         83
    A Day-time Moon                                   85
    A Midnight Sun                                    87
    Her Voice                                         90
    A Florentine Juliet                               92
    Here and There                                   106
    Forward                                          108
    In her Garden                                    110
    On Easter Day                                    113
    “Der Abend ist der Beste”                        115
    Optimism                                         117
    “He shall drink of the Brook by the Way”         120
    Three Pictures                                   122
    The Two Shores                                   125
    “Arise, shine, for thy Light has come”           127
    A Withered Violet                                129
    Darkened                                         131
    The Keys of Granada                              133
   