He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim,
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice with Him.

The sound of children
playfully blowing
straw whistles
wakes me from my
summer afternoon nap.

He had no royal palace,
Only a stable bare.
He had no watchful servants,
An ox and ass stood there.
But light shone forth from where He lay;
The King of Love upon the hay!

HE DREW a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!

1. The harvest dawn is near, The year delays not long;
2. Sad to his toil he goes, His seed with weeping leaves;
And he who sows with many a tear, Shall reap with many a song.
But he shall come at twilight's close, And bring his golden sheaves.

POWER

H AROUN , the Caliph, through the sunlit street
Walked slowly with bent head and weary breath,
And cried, " Alas, I cannot stay my feet,
That move unceasing toward the gate of Death. "

Harlackenden, among these men of note Christ hath thee seated:
In warlike way Christ thee aray, with zeal, and love well heated.
As generall belov'd of all, Christ Souldiers honour thee:
In thy young yeares, courage appeares, and kinde benignity.
Short are thy days, spent to his praise, whose Church work thou must aid,
His work shall bide, silver tride, but thine by death is staid.

1. Hark! 'Tis the Saviour of mankind Speaks to his chosen few;
3. " Yes, should deception still prevail, And blind the people's eyes,
'Tis he who leads the wandering blind In ways they could not know.
In my great day I'll rend the veil From all beneath the skies.
2. 'Tis he who says, " Go forth my friends, Proclaim my truth and grace;
4. " Then every eye shall see the grace You now in faith declare.
Inform each soul my love extends To all of Adam's race.
And I myself, from every face, Will wipe off every tear. "

Hardly a man is now alive
Who recalls that in 1795
Occurred the death of a Mr. James Boswell;
A joke on his doctor, who'd thought that he was well.

Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
I've come to wish you a Happy New Year.
I've got a little pocket and it is very thin,
Please give me a penny to put some money in.
If you haven't got a penny, a halfpenny will do,
If you haven't got a halfpenny, well —
God Bless You!