To climb to God's Eternal plan

She shook as with a mighty awe, For, gazing on this shape which stood Embodying all true womanhood, She knew it was herself she saw.

For, gazing on this shape which stood

Embodying all true womanhood,

She woke as from a dream. But when The laughing lover, light and bold Came with his talk of wine and gold He gazed, grew silent, gazed again;

The laughing lover, light and bold

Came with his talk of wine and gold

Then turned abashed from those calm eyes Where lurked no more the lure to sin. Her higher self had entered in, Her path led now to Paradise.

Where lurked no more the lure to sin.

Her higher self had entered in,

 Thought-Magnets

With each strong thought, with every earnest longing For aught thou deemest needful to thy soul, Invisible vast forces are set thronging Between thee and that goal.

For aught thou deemest needful to thy soul,

Between thee and that goal.

'Tis only when some hidden weakness alters And changes thy desire, or makes it less, That this mysterious army ever falters Or stops short of success.

And changes thy desire, or makes it less,

Or stops short of success.

Thought is a magnet; and the longed-for pleasure Or boon, or aim, or object, is the steel; And its attainment hangs but on the measure Of what thy soul can feel.

Or boon, or aim, or object, is the steel;

Of what thy soul can feel.

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