The Washington herald., 1910-08-14

world at large Contributions. let It be
remembered, should be in hand by We'd
nesday at noon.
The prize winners:
over the ocean OF life there moves
A ship with decks of gold;
The sails are woven with threads Of love,
Yes. woven a hundredfold.
over a sea beset with storms,
Peris are often there;
Onward It moves. the sails well filed
With a cool, refreshing air.
Step aboard the ship Of Hope,
It's sails are the wings of time,
The helm is held by an unseen hand.
It's port the fairest cline
The waves may be heard on the rocks
ahead
The dark clouds hover near;
1 go to the compass. the ship is safe,
And the soul forgets its fear.
At last ! gaze on the distant shore,
frightened with golden light;
I see the domes of the city.
And its walls so fair and white
Sweet sounds Of music fll the air,
The touch Of a gentle hand;
i-say farewell 20 the dreary world.
And enter the Promised Land.
Mrs. F. L. BARRINGER.
Hope is the prayer we breathe o'e1 the
deep.
Through the vale Of grief she viii guide,
and keep
Sweet incense burning at afiicuon' s
shrine.
Beyond the grave I hear q call divine
out Of the mist and shadows gray rise
To share in the blessing of the wise
ELLMoNA ANDERSON.
Truth, life, and love. and immortality
Are food Of hope, are tendrils Of the vine,
Which grows Ike Jonah's gourd, and
reach 70 heaven.
The morning star of hope comes TO our
lives
When life is bounded by the walls OF
home.
And love and hope seem one in youthful
eyes.
And through the portals we catch furtive
views
OF mountain castles and vast oceans
bounds;
We wonder if the world is all as fair
And full Of love and Joy and hope as
home.
The day star rises in the blaze Of noon.
The noon Of life. the heyday Of the soul.
And hope leaps high In manhood's swell
ing heart:
Ambition is its food, and love its dream;
The pomp and pride Of empire is the
prize
Which hope holds out to proud ambitions
gaze.
Choose wealth. choose war, choose states
manship. choose love,
And courage dares wherever hope will
lead:
If for the right. hopes guiding star win
win;
II wrong. hope leads to ruin and despair.
The evening star of hope is brighter
/ far
Than any orb which decks the mystic
sky.
And shines the brightest as lifes force
declines;
It's food is faith, its radiance is love;
And as the human eye grows dull and
dim.
The eye Of faith sees by this star. of hope
/ The shining pathway leading to the gates
Which open on the browning heights Of
God HORACE V. BIsBEE.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
and though It be exceedingly deceitful,
yet it is of this good use TO us that while
we are travelling through life it conducts
US in an easier and more pleasant way
TO our journeys end.
The shadow of human life is traced
upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
Mn. J. J. o'CONNELsA
None there be so finely favored
Ne'er TO know a care;
Yet. we each may hope for blessings
And Of gloom beware.
Only those void OF discretion
Fret and fume for aye;
Better feed on hope. my brother
Mix the grave and gay.
Hope rejuvenates and enlightens The
food OF hope is a lighting chance" He
who hopes lives. Without hope man
masquerades. and feeds on the nothing
ness Of grim despair. HOPE initiated
as Heroism. Optimism. Perseverance. and
Energy. means stamina, moral courage,
sticktoitiveness, and determination to
thwart failure. The wind bloweth where
st listeth," nor you. nor 1 car divert the
current; but whether or no we waste our
days in blind fantasies and gloomy fore
bodings rather than be alert. with an eye
reaching far beyond the haze Of present
worry to a future OF sublime glory. mean
while tending to brighten the pathway
Of friend or enemy. and assist them in
peering beyond the dropping clouds ever
lowering Ger the melancholy and they
who see as through 2 glass darlsly. .
rests entirely with ourselves. We can