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                 Poems by Mary Baker Eddy                  77




  	       OUR NATIONAL THANKSGIVING
  	                            HYMN 

 1	    GOD of the rolling year! to Thee we
  	        raise
 3	    A nation's holiest hymn in grateful
  	        praise! 
  	    Plenty and peace abound at Thy behest,
 6	    Yet wherefore this Thy love? Thou knowest
  	        best! 

  	    Thou who, impartial, blessings spreadst
 9	        abroad,
  	    Thou wisdom, Love, and Truth, — divinely
  	        God! 
12	    Who giveth joy and tears, conflict and rest,
  	    Teaching us thus of Thee, who knowest best! 

  	    Ruler Supreme! to Thee we'll meekly bow,
15	    When we have learned of Truth what Thou
  	        doest now — 
  	    Why from this festive hour some dear lost
18	        guest
  	    Bears hence its sunlit glow — Thou knowest
  	        best! 

 
78            Poems by Mary Baker Eddy


 1	    How have our honored dead fought on in
  	        gloom! 
 3	    Peace her white wings will spread over their
  	        tomb;
  	    Why waited their reward, triumph and rest,
 6	    Till molds the hero form? Thou knowest
  	        best! 

  	    Shades of our heroes! the Union now is one,
 9	    The star whose destiny none may outrun;
  	    Tears of the bleeding slave poured on her
  	        breast,
12	    When to be wiped away, Thou knowest best! 

  	    Thou who in the Christ hallowed its grief, — 
  	    O meekest of mourners, while yet the chief, — 
15	    ...Give to the pleading hearts comfort and rest,
  	    In that benediction which knoweth best! 

  	      Lynn, Mass., December 7, 1865. 
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