THERE come dull days in love’s c… When clouds and doubt obscure the… The woods are still; no songs of b… No sunlight falls, and desolate an… As if harmonious with the lurking…

What is the gift we have given the… What is the trust we have laid in… Hearts of our bravest, our best, a… Blood of our blood we have sown in… What for all time will the harvest…

HAIL, sacred Feast, to weary mor… Pledge of God’s love! O Christ,… Thee, the slain Lamb, and Thee, t… Our life and peace, our joy for ev… Feed us, dear Lord, Thine own gre…

PART I IN the land that is neither night… Where the mists sleep over the for… A sad, sad spirit wandered away. The woods are still—no brooks, no…

I SOMETIMES think that had I… In those old days when Thou wast… Clothed with our flesh, a man as w… The very sight had filled my soul… I should have clung to Thee, and…

THERE’S a lonely spot in the so… More lone than the moonless sea; And a gulf, that never a bridge ca… 'Tween him and all that be; And the lips we kiss, and the eyes…

O YE Wise of the Earth, are ye w… “We can tell from a bone,” ye say, “An animal’s shape and size, And the size and shape of its prey… “For such and such joint,” say ye,

HER love was that full love which… Flows in and out life’s smallest g… And fills with music through long… Cold hearts that else would stern… Her smile would cheer, her faintes…

O GRIP the earth, ye forest tree… Grip well the earth to-night, The Storm-God rides across the se… To greet the morning light. All clouds that wander through the…

AS some great cloud upon a mounta… Hanging for ever, shutteth out the… Its chilly fingers twining in the… And blighting them, so ever one da… Broods o’er my life and makes my s…

We hail thee now, O Jesus, thy presence here we own, though sight and touch have failed… and faith perceives alone; thy love has veiled thy glory;

It sleeps among the thousand hills Where no man ever trod, And only nature’s music fills The silences of God. Great mountains tower above its sh…

UNSEEN in the great minister do… Whose shafts are centuries, its sp… The vaulted universe, our master s… And organ-voices like a far-off ch… Roll thro’ the aisles of thought.…

O little hands, long vanished in t… Sweet fairy hands that were my tre… My heart is full of music from som… Where ye make melody for God’s de… Though autumn clouds obscure the s…

I CLOSED the book, but fancied… I heard, like distant music roll, The far-off echoes in my soul Of his great life. I listened til… Entranced, I thought that I could…