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(April: 1905)
"And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy / times. "-Isaiah xxxiii. 6.
I LOOKED and thought, "All is too gray and cold / To wake my place-enthusiasms of old! " / Till a voice passed: "Behind that granite mien / Lurks the imposing beauty of a Queen. " / I looked anew; and saw the radiant form / Of Her who soothes in stress, who steers in storm, / On the grave influence of whose eyes sublime / Men count for the stability of the time.