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You Must Not Quit

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

By Marie Gleiter
When times go wrong as they somtimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is strange with its twists and turns,
As [...]

Crossing the Bar

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

By Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
But such a tide as was moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
An [...]

Frost

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

When I was in high school and had to compile a notebook of poetry, both original and previously published, I ran across the following verse by Robert Frost in a volume of poems. This is from his poem “In Time of Cloudburst.”

May my application so close
To so endless a repetition
Not make me tired and [...]

My Eternal King

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

My God, I love Thee;
Not because I hope for heaven thereby,
Nor yet because who love Thee not must die eternally.
Thou, O my Jesus, Thou didst me upon the cross embrace;
For me didst bear the nails and spear, and manifold disgrace.
Why, then why, O blessed Jesus Christ, should I not love Thee well?
Not for the hope [...]