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poems by mary baker eddy
LAUS DEO!
The laying of the corner-stone of The Mother Church.
LAUS DEO, it is done!Rolled away from loving heart   Is a stone. Lifted higher, we depart,   Having one.
Laus Deo,—on this rock (Heaven chiseled squarely good)   Stands His church,—God is Love, and understood   By His flock.
Laus Deo, night star-lit Slumbers not in God's embrace;   Be awake; Like this stone, be in thy place:   Stand, not sit.
Grave, silent, steadfast stone, Dirge and song and shoutings low   In thy heart Dwell serene,—and sorrow? No,   It has none,   Laus Deo!