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22             Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

  	            THE NEW CENTURY 

 1	    THOU God-crowned, patient century,
  	    Thine hour hath come! Eternity
 3	    Draws nigh — and, beckoning from
  	        above,
  	    One hundred years, aflame with Love,
 6	    Again shall bid old earth good-by — 
  	    And, lo, the light! far heaven is nigh! 
  	    New themes seraphic, Life divine,
 9	    And bliss that wipes the tears of time
  	    Away, will enter, when they may,
  	    And bask in one eternal day. 

12	    'Tis writ on earth, on leaf and flower:
  	    Love hath one race, one realm, one power. 
  	    Dear God! how great, how good Thou art
15	    To heal humanity's sore heart;
  	    To probe the wound, then pour the balm — 
  	    A life perfected, strong and calm. 
18	    The dark domain of pain and sin
  	    Surrenders — Love doth enter in,
  	    And peace is won, and lost is vice:
21	    Right reigns, and blood was not its price. 

  	      Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., January, 1901.