(SUNG AT A REDEDICATION, WHEATON SEMINARY, MASSACHUSETTS.) LIFE is growth, and growth is change: Shall the new be counted strange, While the rich Past lends perfume To the Present in its bloom? Giving on -- as they have given, Passed beyond us into heaven -- Hearts in this Thy service, Lord, Find their gift its own reward. New things blossom out of old; Fading lives with youth unfold, Standing in Thy sunrise bright, Bearing flower and fruit of light. Looking up into Thy face, Let us broaden, in our place; Glad in opening wide our doors, -- Glad in pouring out our stores! Let our wish, our plan, our end, With Thy widening purpose blend! Shape Thou what we will and do -- Thou, who makest all things new! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COUSIN NANCY by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT TO SOME LADIES [ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL] by JOHN KEATS ARETEMIAS by ANTIPATER OF SIDON THE SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 46 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH THE KITTEN OF THE REGIMENT by JAMES BUCKHAM THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: EROS by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |