Who staggers 'neath his sin and his despair;

To hights where he may see the world is fair.

Love thyself last. The vastnesses above thee Are filled with Spirit Forces, strong and pure. And fervently, these faithful friends shall love thee: Keep thou thy watch o'er others and endure.

Are filled with Spirit Forces, strong and pure.

Keep thou thy watch o'er others and endure.

Love thyself last; and oh, such joy shall thrill thee, As never yet to selfish souls was given. Whate'er thy lot, a perfect peace will fill thee, And earth shall seem the ante-room of Heaven.

As never yet to selfish souls was given.

And earth shall seem the ante-room of Heaven.

Love thyself last, and them shall grow in spirit To see, to hear, to know, and understand. The message of the stars, lo, thou shall hear it, And all God's joys shall be at thy command.

To see, to hear, to know, and understand.

And all God's joys shall be at thy command.

 Christmas Fancies

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago. And etched on vacant places, Are half forgotten faces Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know— When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow.

And etched on vacant places,

Are half forgotten faces

Uprising from the ocean of the present surging near, We see, with strange emotion that is not free from fear, That continent Elysian Long vanished from our vision, Youth's lovely lost Atlantis, so mourned for and so dear, Uprising from the ocean of the present surging near.

That continent Elysian

Long vanished from our vision,

When gloomy gray Decembers are roused to Christmas mirth, The dullest life remembers there once was joy on earth, And draws from youth's recesses Some memory it possesses, And, gazing through the lens of time, exaggerates its 

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