Part 29 (1/2)

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.

There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, But the love that leads life upward is the n.o.blest and the best.

_FACTA NON VERBA_

_Deeds not Words_: I say so too!

And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To n.o.bler act and braver deed.

FOUR THINGS

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow-men sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in G.o.d and Heaven securely.

THE GREAT RIVER

_”In la sua volontade e nostra pace.”_

O mighty river! strong, eternal Will, Wherein the streams of human good and ill Are onward swept, conflicting, to the sea!

The world is safe because it floats in Thee.

INSCRIPTION FOR A TOMB IN ENGLAND

Read here, O friend unknown, Our grief, of her bereft; Yet think not tears alone Within our hearts are left.

The gifts she came to give, Her heavenly love and cheer, Have made us glad to live And die without a fear.

1912.

THE TALISMAN

What is Fortune, what is Fame?

Futile gold and phantom name,-- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

What is Friends.h.i.+p? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

Come, my friend, and let us prove Life's true talisman is love!

By this charm we shall elude Poverty and solitude.

January 21, 1914.

THORN AND ROSE

Far richer than a thornless rose Whose branch with beauty never glows, Is that which every June adorns With perfect bloom among its thorns.