Verses and Rhymes by the Way Author:Norah Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Trifles as fading as the classic laurel, Became the guerdon of each mighty deed, Titles and stars rewarded mortal peril, And men for such as these would gl... more »adly bleed. But He, our holy, sinless, suffering Saviour, When He sat down upon a conqueror's throne, Ordained the soldiers of the cross that ever They wear the name in which He victory won. Servants to do all things He hath commanded, To bear the service which our Lord has borne, To suffer for His name, with false words branded, To pay with loving service bitter scorn. What was beforetime low, is now the highest, And that is glory that the worLd calls shame, Those who can say " I serve " to Him are nighest Because the Son hath worn a servant's name. Lift up your heads heed not the words of scorning, From those whose earnest life is not begun ; Blessed are they who on the judgment morning Hear from the Master, " Servant, 'tis well done." ALAS, MY BROTHER! (P. McD.) We waited for him, and the anxious days Melted to years and floated slowly by: We spoke of him kind words of lofty praise, Of yearning love and tender sympathy. We laid by what was his with reverent care— Started in dreams to greet him coming home— But hope deferred left no relief but prayer, And heart-sore longings breathed in one word—Come. We never dreamed of murderous ambush laid By savage redskins greedy for the prey— Of him, our darling, in the forest laid Alone, alone, ebbing his life away. He who would not have harmed the meanest thing, Who carried gentleness to such excess That, to the stranger and the suffering, His purse meant help, his touch was a caress. Ah me ! that cruel far off land of gold, That lured him off beyond the ocean foam, To roam a stranger among strangers co...« less