LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  JOHN MILTON
      Photogravure from an engraving.

THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
One of Heinrich Hoffmann’s wonderful scenes in the life of
Christ:  the earnest, wise-faced Boy, and the eager or doubtful
but thoughtful Scribes and Doctors of the Law, are graphically
depicted.

ISAAC WATTS
From a contemporary engraving.

THE HOLY NIGHT
“It was the winter wild
While the heaven-born Child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”

From photogravure after a painting by Martin Feuerstein.

CHARLES WESLEY
From a contemporary engraving.

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
“Knocking, knocking, ever knocking? 
Who is there? 
’Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly,
Never such was seen before.”

      From photo-carbon print after the painting by Holman Hunt.

  SIR GALAHAD
        “My strength is as the strength of ten,
        Because my heart is pure.”

      From photogravure after the painting by George Frederick Watts.

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON
      From a photogravure after life-photograph.

  DINA M. MULOCK CRAIK
      From a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London.

  THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
        “Two went to pray?  O, rather say,
        One went to brag, the other to pray;
        One nearer to God’s altar trod,
        The other to the altar’s God.”

      From engraving by Brend’amour, after a design by Alexander Bida.

  DANTE ALIGHIERI
      After a photograph from the fresco by His friend Giotto, discovered
      under the whitewash on a watt of the Bargello palace; now in the Museo
      Nazionale, Florence, Italy.

POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE

POEMS OF THE HIGHER LIFE

I.

THE DIVINE ELEMENT.

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SONG.

FROM “PIPPA PASSES.”

  The year’s at the spring,
  And day’s at the morn;
  Morning’s at seven;
  The hill-side’s dew-pearled;
  The lark’s on the wing;
  The snail’s on the thorn;
  God’s in His heaven—­
  All’s right with the world.

ROBERT BROWNING.

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A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE.

  Long pored Saint Austin o’er the sacred page,
    And doubt and darkness overspread his mind;
  On God’s mysterious being thought the Sage,
    The Triple Person in one Godhead joined. 
    The more he thought, the harder did he find
  To solve the various doubts which fast arose;
    And as a ship, caught by imperious wind,
  Tosses where chance its shattered body throws,
  So tossed his troubled soul, and nowhere found repose.