THERE IS A BEAUTY

There is a beauty at the goal of life,
A beauty growing since the world began,
Through every age and race, through lapse and strife,
Till the great human soul complete her span.
Beneath the waves of storm that lash and burn,
The currents of blind passion that appall,
To listen and keep watch till we discern
The tide of sovereign truth that guides it all;
So to address our spirits to the height,
And so attune them to the valiant whole,
That the great light be clearer for our light,
And the great soul the stronger for our soul:
To have done this is to have lived, though fame
Remember us with no familiar name.

THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

From Thee all skill and science flow,
All pity, care, and love,
All calm and courage, faith and hope;
O pour them from above.

And part them, Lord, to each and all,
As each and all shall need,
To rise like incense, each to Thee,
In noble thought and deed.

AMERICA'S GOSPEL

Our country hath a gospel of her own
To preach and practice before all the world
The freedom and divinity of man,
The glorious claims of human brotherhood,
And the soul's fealty to none but God.