Voices of the Muses

“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies; The kernel is soft when the rind is scraped off.”

“Jesus, thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.”

“Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day back to their mountain nests let all my life take its voyage to its eternal home in one salutation to thee.”

“No lover ever seeks union with his beloved, But his beloved is also seeking union with him.”

“When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.”

“There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.”

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.”

“When you have accepted the Light, O beloved, When you behold what is veiled without a veil, Like a star you will walk upon the heavens.”

“For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action— Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”

“My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”

“a good, peaceable man converteth all things into good. He who dwelleth in peace is suspicious of none,”