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THE WAITING NOTE; DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT SUSAN MILLS OF MILLS COLLEGE by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL

First Line: IN THE FULL CELESTIAL CHORUS
Last Line: LAY THEIR WORSHIP AT HIS FEET.
Subject(s): GOD; MILLS COLLEGE, CALIFORNIA; RELIGION; WORSHIP; THEOLOGY;

In the full celestial chorus
Lacks one strain that waits for me,
Note of that immortal measure
From earth's death-note ever free.
May I with my heart's own spirit
Catch that harmony divine;
Strike the chord with tone unerring,
Knowing it as only mine.

Mine with not a broken cadence;
Mine for God's eternal chime,
Keyed to heavenly diapason
When the worlds He swung in time;
In majestic majors swelling,
Mine where men and angels meet,
And the spheres in grand crescendo
Lay their worship at His feet.



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