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One Sabbath day my friend and I	A
After the meeting quietly	B
Passed from the crowded village lanes	C
White with dry dust for lack of rains	C
And climbed the neighboring slope with feet	D
Slackened and heavy from the heat	D
Although the day was wellnigh done	E
And the low angle of the sun	E
Along the naked hillside cast	F
Our shadows as of giants vast	F
We reached at length the topmost swell	G
Whence either way the green turf fell	G
In terraces of nature down	H
To fruit hung orchards and the town	H
With white pretenceless houses tall	I
Church steeples and o'ershadowing all	I
Huge mills whose windows had the look	J
Of eager eyes that ill could brook	J
The Sabbath rest We traced the track	K
Of the sea seeking river back	K
Glistening for miles above its mouth	L
Through the long valley to the south	L
And looking eastward cool to view	M
Stretched the illimitable blue	M
Of ocean from its curved coast line	N
Sombred and still the warm sunshine	N
Filled with pale gold dust all the reach	O
Of slumberous woods from hill to beach	O
Slanted on walls of thronged retreats	P
From city toil and dusty streets	P
On grassy bluff and dune of sand	Q
And rocky islands miles from land	Q
Touched the far glancing sails and showed	R
White lines of foam where long waves flowed	R
Dumb in the distance In the north	S
Dim through their misty hair looked forth	S
The space dwarfed mountains to the sea	B
From mystery to mystery	B
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So sitting on that green hill slope	T
We talked of human life its hope	T
And fear and unsolved doubts and what	U
It might have been and yet was not	V
And when at last the evening air	W
Grew sweeter for the bells of prayer	W
Ringing in steeples far below	X
We watched the people churchward go	X
Each to his place as if thereon	Y
The true shekinah only shone	Z
And my friend queried how it came	A2
To pass that they who owned the same	A2
Great Master still could not agree	B
To worship Him in company	B
Then broadening in his thought he ran	B2
Over the whole vast field of man	B2
The varying forms of faith and creed	C2
That somehow served the holders' need	C2
In which unquestioned undenied	C2
Uncounted millions lived and died	C2
The bibles of the ancient folk	D2
Through which the heart of nations spoke	D2
The old moralities which lent	C2
To home its sweetness and content	C2
And rendered possible to bear	W
The life of peoples everywhere	W
And asked if we who boast of light	C2
Claim not a too exclusive right	C2
To truths which must for all be meant	C2
Like rain and sunshine freely sent	C2
In bondage to the letter still	E2
We give it power to cramp and kill	E2
To tax God's fulness with a scheme	F2
Narrower than Peter's house top dream	F2
His wisdom and his love with plans	G2
Poor and inadequate as man's	G2
It must be that He witnesses	H2
Somehow to all men that He is	I2
That something of His saving grace	J2
Reaches the lowest of the race	J2
Who through strange creed and rite may draw	K2
The hints of a diviner law	K2
We walk in clearer light but then	L2
Is He not God are they not men	L2
Are His responsibilities	M2
For us alone and not for these	M2
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And I made answer 'Truth is one	E
And in all lands beneath the sun	E
Whoso hath eyes to see may see	B
The tokens of its unity	B
No scroll of creed its fulness wraps	N2
We trace it not by school boy maps	N2
Free as the sun and air it is	I2
Of latitudes and boundaries	M2
In Vedic verse in dull Koran	O2
Are messages of good to man	B2
The angels to our Aryan sires	P2
Talked by the earliest household fires	Q2
The prophets of the elder day	C2
The slant eyed sages of Cathay	C2
Read not the riddle all amiss	R2
Of higher life evolved from this	R2
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'Nor doth it lessen what He taught	C2
Or make the gospel Jesus brought	C2
Less precious that His lips retold	C2
Some portion of that truth of old	C2
Denying not the proven seers	S2
The tested wisdom of the years	T2
Confirming with his own impress	U2
The common law of righteousness	V2
We search the world for truth we cull	W2
The good the pure the beautiful	W2
From graven stone and written scroll	X2
From all old flower fields of the soul	X2
And weary seekers of the best	C2
We come back laden from our quest	C2
To find that all the sages said	C2
Is in the Book our mothers read	C2
And all our treasure of old thought	C2
In His harmonious fulness wrought	C2
Who gathers in one sheaf complete	C2
The scattered blades of God's sown wheat	C2
The common growth that maketh good	C2
His all embracing Fatherhood	C2
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'Wherever through the ages rise	Y2
The altars of self sacrifice	Z2
Where love its arms has opened wide	C2
Or man for man has calmly died	C2
I see the same white wings outspread	C2
That hovered o'er the Master's head	C2
Up from undated time they come	A3
The martyr souls of heathendom	A3
And to His cross and passion bring	B3
Their fellowship of suffering	B3
I trace His presence in the blind	C2
Pathetic gropings of my kind	C2
In prayers from sin and sorrow wrung	C3
In cradle hymns of life they sung	C3
Each in its measure but a part	C2
Of the unmeasured Over Heart	C2
And with a stronger faith confess	U2
The greater that it owns the less	U2
Good cause it is for thankfulness	U2
That the world blessing of His life	D3
With the long past is not at strife	D3
That the great marvel of His death	E3
To the one order witnesseth	E3
No doubt of changeless goodness wakes	U2
No link of cause and sequence breaks	U2
But one with nature rooted is	U2
In the eternal verities	U2
Whereby while differing in degree	B
As finite from infinity	B
The pain and loss for others borne	F3
Love's crown of suffering meekly worn	F3
The life man giveth for his friend	C2
Become vicarious in the end	C2
Their healing place in nature take	G3
And make life sweeter for their sake	G3
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'So welcome I from every source	U2
The tokens of that primal Force	U2
Older than heaven itself yet new	M
As the young heart it reaches to	M
Beneath whose steady impulse rolls	U2
The tidal wave of human souls	U2
Guide comforter and inward word	C2
The eternal spirit of the Lord	C2
Nor fear I aught that science brings	U2
From searching through material things	U2
Content to let its glasses prove	H3
Not by the letter's oldness move	H3
The myriad worlds on worlds that course	U2
The spaces of the universe	U2
Since everywhere the Spirit walks	U2
The garden of the heart and talks	U2
With man as under Eden's trees	U2
In all his varied languages	U2
Why mourn above some hopeless flaw	K2
In the stone tables of the law	K2
When scripture every day afresh	I3
Is traced on tablets of the flesh	I3
By inward sense by outward signs	U2
God's presence still the heart divines	U2
Through deepest joy of Him we learn	J3
In sorest grief to Him we turn	J3
And reason stoops its pride to share	W
The child like instinct of a prayer '	-
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And then as is my wont I told	C2
A story of the days of old	C2
Not found in printed books in sooth	E3
A fancy with slight hint of truth	E3
Showing how differing faiths agree	B
In one sweet law of charity	B
Meanwhile the sky had golden grown	Z
Our faces in its glory shone	Z
But shadows down the valley swept	C2
And gray below the ocean slept	C2
As time and space I wandered o'er	K3
To tread the Mogul's marble floor	L3
And see a fairer sunset fall	I
On Jumna's wave and Agra's wall	I
	-
The good Shah Akbar peace be his alway	M3
Came forth from the Divan at close of day	C2
Bowed with the burden of his many cares	U2
Worn with the hearing of unnumbered prayers	U2
Wild cries for justice the importunate	C2
Appeals of greed and jealousy and hate	C2
And all the strife of sect and creed and rite	C2
Santon and Gouroo waging holy fight	C2
For the wise monarch claiming not to be	B
Allah's avenger left his people free	B
With a faint hope his Book scarce justified	C2
That all the paths of faith though severed wide	C2
O'er which the feet of prayerful reverence passed	C2
Met at the gate of Paradise at last	C2
	-
He sought an alcove of his cool hareem	A3
Where far beneath he heard the Jumna's stream	A3
Lapse soft and low along his palace wall	I
And all about the cool sound of the fall	I
Of fountains and of water circling free	B
Through marble ducts along the balcony	B
The voice of women in the distance sweet	C2
And sweeter still of one who at his feet	C2
Soothed his tired ear with songs of a far land	C2
Where Tagus shatters on the salt sea sand	C2
The mirror of its cork grown hills of drouth	E3
And vales of vine at Lisbon's harbor mouth	E3
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The date palms rustled no	X