Identifier: shrinesoldnewoth00farmuoft (find matches)
Title: Shrines old and new, and other poems
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Farmer, Thomas Devey Jermyn
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Publisher: Toronto W. Briggs
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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preading shades.I listened, but upon mine ear there rangOf horses hoofs no distant echoing clang.Nor sound of rumbling wheels, she hath not theseBecause her paths are oer th untrodden seas. Venice, March i6, igi2. 211 SHRINES OLD AND NEW ADVERSITY. Composed at Sea. In Holy Writ tis taught that Job of old,Greatest of men, with riches manifold.Perfect and upright and eschewing evil,By heavens decree is tempted of the devil.His cattle fall beneath the Sabean rod,His sheep are slain by angry fire of God;Chaldean sword his men and camels slaughters,The wilderness wind his sons and daughters.And then to this extreme humiliationSore boils are added as an aggravation.But yet this saint, mid all this dire correction,And grievous loss, and souls supreme dejection.Patiently bearing fire and rod and sword,Blesses the name of his afflicting Lord. And, as afflictions devastating breathRefined Jobs life and added to his faith.In man, in nature, and in fable, weMay see the blessings of Adversity. 212
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1) V biO o inen > rS OCO ADVERSITY Look around, reader, and youll find tis true; Whatever theme or prospect you pursue, If tis the forest or the ocean tide, If tis the stream where leaves of autumn glide. The boy who plods with tireless energy. Or chastened martyr of mythology; If the proud ship which rides upon the storms, If mans frail soul surrounded with alarms; This lessons taught, the way thats strewn with thornsThe better and the higher life adorns. The stately oak sprang not at once to sight.To majesty and beauty in the light,But many a storm-wind rudely sweeping oer,Bent its young branches in the days of yore.Stern was it pressd by many an autumn wind.By lightnings flash, by winters frost unkind;But all these foes but multiplied its strength.And gave new vigor to its breath and length;And thus we see it standing proud to-day.Impervious to wind and rains decay.The monarch of the forest and the grove,Pride of our land, and object of our love.Strong in the sunlight of Gods gl

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