The Mountain Spring and Other Poems

BY

NANNIE R. GLASS

TO THE MEMORY OF HER PARENTS, WHO KEPT THEIR ALTAR FIRES BURNING, THE AUTHOR AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATES THIS LITTLE BOOK

CONTENTS

 THE MOUNTAIN SPRING GO WANDER LOVE THE LILIES TELL PETER THE SLEET ANSWERED ALONE NO OTHER WEALTH THE CAPTIVES THE LIVING WATER JESUS INTERCEDES EVE'S FLOWERS COME UNTO ME NOVEMBER THE TRAVELERS DAYBREAK GONE AWAKE! "ABIDE WITH US" O BETHLEHEM! RING THE BELLS THE DESERT SPRING MUSINGS BARTIMÆUS ZACCHÆUS APRIL BETHLEHEM NATURE'S LESSON THE MIGRATORY SWANS MINISTERING WOMEN THAT JEWISH LAD IN SINCERITY THEY'RE COMING! 

THE MOUNTAIN SPRING AND OTHER POEMS

THE MOUNTAIN SPRING

And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.—Revelation 22:17.

I wandered down a mountain road,

Past flower and rock and lichen gray,

Alone with nature and her God

Upon a flitting summer day.

The forest skirted to the edge

Of Capon river, Hampshire's gem,

Which, bathing many a primrose ledge,

Oft sparkled like a diadem.

At length a silvery spring I spied,

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