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12             Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

  	            CHRIST MY REFUGE 

 1	    O'ER waiting harpstrings of the mind
  	        There sweeps a strain,
 3	    Low, sad, and sweet, whose meas-
  	          ures bind
  	        The power of pain,

 6	    And wake a white-winged angel throng
  	        Of thoughts, illumed
  	    By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
 9	        With love perfumed. 

  	    Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
  	        Life's burdens light. 
12	    I kiss the cross, and wake to know
  	        A world more bright. 

  	    And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea
15	        I see Christ walk,
  	    And come to me, and tenderly,
  	        Divinely talk. 

18	    Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
  	        Upon Life's shore,
  	    'Gainst which the winds and waves can
21	          shock,
  	        Oh, nevermore! 
 
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 1	    From tired joy and grief afar,
  	        And nearer Thee, — 
 3	    Father, where Thine own children are,
  	        I love to be. 

  	    My prayer, some daily good to do
 6	        To Thine, for Thee;
  	    An offering pure of Love, whereto
  	        God leadeth me.