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32            Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

  	       RESOLUTIONS FOR THE DAY 

 1	    TO rise in the morning and drink in
  	        the view — 
 3	      The home where I dwell in the
  	        vale,
  	    The blossoms whose fragrance and charms
 6	        ever new
  	      Are scattered o'er hillside and dale;

  	    To gaze on the sunbeams enkindling the
 9	        sky — 
  	      A loftier life to invite — 
  	    A light that illumines my spiritual eye,
12	      And inspires my pen as I write;

  	    To form resolutions, with strength from on
  	        high,
15	      Such physical laws to obey,
  	    As reason with appetite, pleasures deny,
  	      That health may my efforts repay;

18	    To kneel at the altar of mercy and pray
  	      That pardon and grace, through His Son,
  	    May comfort my soul all the wearisome day,
21	      And cheer me with hope when 'tis done;
 
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 1	    To daily remember my blessings and charge,
  	      And make this my humble request:
 3	    Increase Thou my faith and my vision
  	        enlarge,
  	      And bless me with Christ's promised rest;

 6	    To hourly seek for deliverance strong
  	      From selfishness, sinfulness, dearth,
  	    From vanity, folly, and all that is wrong — 
 9	      With ambition that binds us to earth;

  	    To kindly pass over a wound, or a foe
  	      (And mem'ry but part us awhile),
...12	    To breathe forth a prayer that His love I
  	        may know,
  	      Whose mercies my sorrows beguile, — 

15	    If these resolutions are acted up to,
  	      And faith spreads her pinions abroad,
  	    'Twill be sweet when I ponder the days may
18	        be few
  	      That waft me away to my God. 

  	      Written in girlhood. 
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