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Life's threads all sorely tangled - John Oxenham "All's Well!"

Sweet chords strained and jangled - John Oxenham "All's Well"

Sweeps us along to the Opening Door - John Oxenham "The Bells of Ys"

Serve to bring the burdened heart - John Oxenham "Burden-Bearers"

Compounds a strangely mingled cup - John Oxenham "Cup of Mixture"

Doors still bolted against - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"

All the fringes of the night - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"

Cleaves through the husk of things - John Oxenham "Don't Worry"

She left the door ajar - John Oxenham "E.A., Nov. 6, 1900"

Glory shining through the cleft - John Oxenham "E.A., Nov. 6, 1900"

Each stone a prayer - John Oxenham "Everymaid"

Chase of steel on stone - John Oxenham "Everymaid"

Paid in full to axe and flame - John Oxenham "Free Men of God"

Swept bare by cleansing fires - John Oxenham "Gadara, A.D. 31"

Two and two will not make five - John Oxenham "God Is Good"

On the tablets of the night - John Oxenham "God Is Good"

All the mystery of withered hope - John Oxenham "God's Handwriting"

We catch but broken strokes - John Oxenham "God's Handwriting"

Voices of the women on the road - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"

The feet of crumbling clay - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"

Into the maw of the grim black night - John Oxenham "The Hungry Sea"

A land of lights and shadows - John Oxenham "India"

Count on no to-morrow - John Oxenham "Judgment Day"

The great cedar's benedictory grace - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"

Earth's ten thousand fragrant incenses - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"

Knits the silken bond of peace - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"

Worn with long journeyings - John Oxenham "Livingstone the Builder"

Blood on the hearth, and blood in the well - John Oxenham "Macedonia, 1903"

The mystic circles leap - John Oxenham "New Year's Day--And Every Day"

To-morrow my untented soul will range - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

Slack ropes all undone - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

For the sweet oil is low - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

With eyes washed in the fire - John Oxenham "Philosopher's Garden"

For no man travels twice - John Oxenham "The Pilgrim Way"

Menaced by the sword - John Oxenham "Quo Vadis?"

Shook off the dust of Rome - John Oxenham "Quo Vadis?"

Ringed in the foam of the Silver Sea - John Oxenham "Sark"

Transformations of this house of clay - John Oxenham "Seeds"

Beyond the pride of any earthly queen - John Oxenham "Seeds"

No bonds of time or space - John Oxenham "Seeds"

Have not a cent to bless - John Oxenham "Some--And Some"

Kindle many a heart to equal flame - John Oxenham "Tamate"

All the amplitude of heaven - John Oxenham "Tamate"

In the moment when the light fails - John Oxenham "Wakening"

To every weaver one golden strand - John Oxenham "Weavers All"

A red rose for my helmet - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"

The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"


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