Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JUDGE NOT. ‘ UDGE not; the workings of his brain And of his heart thou canst not see; What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, In God’s pure light may only be A scar, brought from some well-won field, Where thou wouldst only faint and yield. The look, the air, that frets thy sight, May be a token, that below The soul has closed in deadly fight With some infernal fiery foe, Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace, And cast thee shuddering on thy face ! The fall thou darest to despise? May be the angel’s slackened hand Has suffered it, that he may rise And take a firmer, surer stand; c Or, trusting less to earthly things, May henceforth learn to use his wings. And judge none lost; but wait, and see, With hopeful pity, not disdain; The depth of the abyss may be The measure of the height of pain And love and glory that may raise This soul to God in after days! FRIEND SORROW. not cheat thy Heart and tell her,
Grief will pass away, Hope for fairer times in future, And forget to-day. ? Tell her, if you will, that sorrow Need not come in vain; Tell her that the lesson taught her Far outweighs the pain. Cheat her not with the old comfort,
Soon she will forget ? Bitter truth, alas?but matter Rather for regret; Bid her not
Seek other pleasures, Turn to other things: ? Rather nurse her caged sorrow 'Till the captive sings. Rather bid her go forth bravely, And the stranger greet; Not as foe, with spear and buckler, But as dear friends meet; Bid her with a strong clasp hold her, By her dusky wings? Listening for the murmured blessing Sorrow always brings. ONE BY ONE. INE by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. One…