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poems by mary baker eddy
THE NEW CENTURY
HOU God-crowned, patient century,Thine hour hath come! Eternity Draws nigh—and, beckoning from above, One hundred years, aflame with Love, Again shall bid old earth good-by—And, lo, the light! far heaven is nigh! New themes seraphic, Life divine, And bliss that wipes the tears of time Away, will enter, when they may, And bask in one eternal day. 'Tis writ on earth, on leaf and flower: Love hath one race, one realm, one power. Dear God! how great, how good Thou art To heal humanity's sore heart; To probe the wound, then pour the balm—A life perfected, strong and calm. The dark domain of pain and sin Surrenders—Love doth enter in, And peace is won, and lost is vice: Right reigns, and blood was not its price.
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., January, 1901.
