50 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

Some Call it Evolution

AFIRE-MIST and a planet,
A crystal and a coll,
A jelly-fish and a saurian,

And a cave where the cave-men dwell;
Then a sense of law and beauty,

A face turned from the clod :
Some call it Evolution,

And others call It God.

Lake tides oil the crescent sea-beach

When the moon is new and thin,
Into our hearts high yearnings

Come welling1 and surging in,
Come from the mystic ocean,

Whose rim no foot has trod :
Some of us call it Longing,

And others call it God*

A haze on the far horizon,

The infinite, tender sky,
The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields,

And the wild geese flying high,
And over upland and lowland

The charm of the golden-rod ;
Some of us call it Autumn,

And others call it God.

A picket frozen on duty,

A mother starved for her brook,
Socrates drinking the hemlock,

And Jesus on the rood,
And millions who, humble and nameless,

The straight hard pathway trod :
Some call it Consecration,

And others call it God.

William Herbert Carruth

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Our Earthly Rulers Palter
GOD of earth and altar
— 3Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter
Our people drift and die ;
The walls of gold entomb us
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
take away our pride*
O. K. Chesterton