Josiah Gilbert Holland Poems

GOD, give us men!
A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
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DAY will return with a fresher boon;
God will remember the world!
Night will come with a newer moon;
God will remember the world!
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ROCKABY, lullaby, bees in the clover!
Crooning so drowsily, crying so low,
Rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover!
Down into wonderland,
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Here dwells the good old farmer, Israel,
In his ancestral home-a Puritan
Who reads his Bible daily, loves his God,
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Winter's wild birthnight! In the fretful East
The uneasy wind moans with its sense of cold,
And sends its sighs through gloomy mountain gorge,
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Doubt takes to wings on such a night as this;
And while the traveler hugs her fluttering cloak,
And staggers o'er the weary waste alone,
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What does he think of his mother's eyes?
What does he think of his mother's hair?
What of the cradle-roof that flies
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Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
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WHAT is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt!
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
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IF I shall ever win the home in heaven
For whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,
In the great company of the forgiven
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