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@@ -1,39 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems of the Heart and Home, by J. C. Yule - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Poems of the Heart and Home - -Author: J. C. Yule - -Posting Date: September 3, 2012 [EBook #6621] -Release Date: October, 2004 -First Posted: January 2, 2003 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME *** - - - - -Produced by Beth L. Constantine, Juliet Sutherland, Charles -Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from -images generously made available by the Canadian Institute -for Historical Microreproductions. - - - - - - - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 6621 *** @@ -448,7 +413,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. I shall see thee unfold anew, In the desert's dust, Where journey I must, - Why beautiful form shall view, + Thy beautiful form shall view, And visions of Home O'er my spirit will come, As thro' tear-drops I gaze on you' @@ -471,7 +436,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Living for Christ, rich blessings I attain, Yet, dying for Him, mine is greater gain Life for my Lord, is death to sin and strife, - Yet death for Him is everlas'ing life! + Yet death for Him is everlasting life! Dying for Christ, I live!--and yet, not I, But He lives in me, who did for me die. @@ -783,7 +748,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. All deftly wrought with matchless skill, its shining tresses rolled. And, fronting thus the rising sun, it sent back ray for ray-- - A golden flood of arrowy light--into-the face of day; + A golden flood of arrowy light--into the face of day; While round its feet, in awe and dread, all Shinar stood amazed, And up into that radiant face with reverent wonder gazed. @@ -860,7 +825,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Then to the furnace mouth drew near the monarch with his train-- The baffled monarch, bowed and quelled, feeling how poor and vain - Were all his boasted pomp and power, how impotent and Week + Were all his boasted pomp and power, how impotent and Weak The arm so void of strength that hour his mad revenge to wreak. "Ho, Shadrach, Meshach, hasten ye! and thou, Abednego, @@ -969,7 +934,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. While round them in its lonely pride The far, free desert lay And there, unburied, still they sit, - All statute like and cold, + All statue like and cold, Free, e'en in death, though o'er their homes Oppression's tide has rolled! @@ -2013,7 +1978,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. It is well!--I would not hang A weight on his fetterless wing; - For was he not make for the sun-bright sky?-- + For was he not made for the sun-bright sky?-- To face the glories that burn on high?-- And I, to sit 'mid Earth's fading bloom, And waste my life in the faint perfume @@ -2597,7 +2562,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Ah me! 'tis hard to speak Of thee as of the dead--the pale, still dead!-- - 'Tis hard to think the b'eak, + 'Tis hard to think the bleak, Stern blast of winter sweeps above thy low, cold bed! * * * * * @@ -2953,7 +2918,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. But the King felt better that hot June day, So he said to himself "I will get up a play Among the children by way of a change, - No doubt they are-feeling, like me, very strange + No doubt they are feeling, like me, very strange At this dreary confinement--a month and more, And never once stirring at all out of door! It is terribly wearisome keeping so still-- @@ -2981,7 +2946,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. They swept o'er valley, and forest, and hill. The clouds affrighted before them flew, From white swift changing to black or blue; - But, failing to'scape the assailants' ire, + But, failing to 'scape the assailants' ire, Fell afoul of each other in conflict dire. Now hot, now cold--what a strife was there! @@ -3071,7 +3036,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Gracious Redeemer we go at thy bidding, Gladly encountering peril and loss; Take us--ourselves to thy work we are giving, - Giveus--'tis more than we merit--_thy cross!_ + Give us--'tis more than we merit--_thy cross!_ @@ -4262,7 +4227,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. A very few days, and then, She will finish her gorgeous pictures all, And hurry away ere the gusty squall - Ruins her work, and the sere leaves fail + Ruins her work, and the sere leaves fall Darkly in copse and glen. Then welcome these pictures, so soon to fade, @@ -4304,7 +4269,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Let us pray!--on every spirit, Secret, solemn records lie, Of transgression and demerit, - On'y seen by God's pure eye,-- + Only seen by God's pure eye,-- Secret sins, desires unholy, Thoughts impure that once held sway,-- Oh, in penitence most lowly, @@ -4878,7 +4843,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Dead?--frenzied demon of the lash and whip, What time you let your dogs of ruin slip - At his unguarded throat with raurd'rous cry, + At his unguarded throat with murd'rous cry, And passion-howl of rage and agony?-- Nay:--in that deathful hour, from shore to shore, Men heard his voice who never heard before; @@ -5061,7 +5026,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. There they are lying under the snow, And the winds moan over them sad and low. Pale, still faces that smile no more, - Calm, dosed eyelids whose light is o'er, + Calm, closed eyelids whose light is o'er, Silent lips that will never again, Move to music's entrancing strain, White hands folded o'er marble breasts, @@ -5345,7 +5310,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Nay; the red bolt, e'en now, vindictive flashes The thunder rolls nearer, and still more near! Hourly the tide of wrath more sternly dashes - On ruin's rocks!--oh, that thou wouldst but + On ruin's rocks!--oh, that thou wouldst but hear Now, sinner, now! Now, Christian, now @@ -5353,7 +5318,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Gather thy sheaves--the precious grain is wasting! Too many hours Earth's cup of nectar tasting Thou'st wasted now! - Up, up!--the Master's coining steps already + Up, up!--the Master's coming steps already Echoing adown the steeps of heaven are heard! The angel-reapers, with firm hand and steady, Stand, dim-descried, waiting the signal-word @@ -5755,7 +5720,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Rosebud the rarest Plucked ere its prime, Mine to weep ever - Where the wares beat, + Where the waves beat, Meeting thee never, Lost Marguerite! @@ -5897,7 +5862,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Ye follow each other, Out of the darkness where we stand weeping, Weary and faint with our virgil-keeping, - Into die summer-land, peaceful and bright! + Into the summer-land, peaceful and bright! One by one, ye are passing, beloved, Out of the darkness round us that lies-- @@ -6016,7 +5981,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. 'Tis but to leave the dusty way Our pilgrim feet so long have pressed, - And passon angel-wings away, + And pass on angel-wings away, Forever with the Lord to rest. 'Tis but with noiseless step to glide @@ -6089,7 +6054,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Go, dream no more of a sun-bright sky With never a cloud to dim!-- Thou hast seen the storm in its robes of night, - Them hast felt the rush of the whirlwind's might, + Thou hast felt the rush of the whirlwind's might, Thou hast shrunk from the lightning's arrowy flight, When the Spirit of Storms went by! @@ -6126,7 +6091,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Thy bounding step, thy form of girlish grace, Thy pleasant, tuneful voice,-- We miss thee when the dewy evening hours - Come with their coolness to our garden, bowers,-- + Come with their coolness to our garden bowers,-- We miss thee when the warbler's tuneful lay Welcomes the rising glories of the day And all glad things rejoice! @@ -6238,7 +6203,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. And you, through pleasant weather. I loved you for the light, Chlodine, Of summer all around you,-- - I loved you foil the sweet June-flowers, + I loved you for the sweet June-flowers, Whose dewy garlands bound you! You loved me not, Chlodine, because @@ -6426,7 +6391,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. It was a summer noon. The soft, south wind made music 'mid the boughs - Of the cool forest, whence glad bursts, of song + Of the cool forest, whence glad bursts of song Floated unceasing. On a mossy bank Starred with pale flowers, I laid me down to rest, Yet not to slumber. Tenderly, the sky @@ -6732,7 +6697,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Ranged around the midnight queen-- A select and glorious band Who alone may waiting stand - Hound the monarch of the night, + Around the monarch of the night, Bearing up their urns of light, Her majestic path to cheer Till the shadows disappear. @@ -6767,7 +6732,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Then, with graceful Euterpe, Seek the spreading greenwood tree, And with joy, and light, and love, - AH around thee and above, + All around thee and above, Tune thy lyre to praiseful mirth With all happy things of Earth! @@ -8129,7 +8094,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Who feels a wrong done to the feeblest one, Keenly, as though unto Himself 'twere done;-- Who, sees no kindness to the humblest shown, - But 'lisas though 'twere to Himself alone;-- + But 'tis as though 'twere to Himself alone;-- And who will judge the wrong, the kindness bless, With all a brother's truth and tenderness;-- Nay, more: an earthly brother faints and dies, @@ -8374,7 +8339,7 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. Rather than trust thy dimly groping hand Its hold to fasten on that unknown land Whence none return, its secrets to declare, - And tell what bliss or rum waits thee there? + And tell what bliss or ruin waits thee there? Well mayst thou cling to Earth, unless thy ear Opened has been, the voice from Heaven to hear,-- @@ -8414,372 +8379,4 @@ POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME. _Thus end all praises, where all praise begins!_ - - - - - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Poems of the Heart and Home, by J. C. Yule - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF THE HEART AND HOME *** - -***** This file should be named 6621.txt or 6621.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/6/2/6621/ - -Produced by Beth L. 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