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My Mother’s Bibleby American poet George pope Morris (1802-1864)  extracted from Poems and Hymns This book is all that’s left me now,Tears will unbidden start,With faltering lip and throbbing browI press it to my heart.For many generations pastHere is our family tree;My mother’s hands this Bible clasped,She, dying, gave it me. Ah! Well do I remember thoseWhose names these records bear;Who round the hearthstone used to close,After the evening prayer,And speak of what these pages saidIn tones my heart would thrill!Though they…

There Be An ancient poem by an unknown writter There be prudent prophets all, The Apostles six and six, The glorious martyrs in a row, And confessors in betwixt, And though the glory of each one Doth differ in degree, Yet is the joy of all alike And common, certainly. There David stands with harp in hand, as master of the choir. A thousand times that man were blest That may his music hear. There Mary sings “Magnificat” With tune…

1 October 2023 Alfred Tennyson, English Victorian poet laureate  (1809-1892) Sunset and evening star,           And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar,           When I put out to sea.   But such a tide as moving seems asleep,           Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep           turns…