THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

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FAITH: HOPE: LOVE: SERVICE


SABBATH: WORSHIP: CREED


SELECTIONS FROM "PARADISE LOST"


HUMAN EXPERIENCE


DEATH: IMMORTALITY: HEAVEN


SELECTIONS FROM "THE DIVINE COMEDY"


INDEX: AUTHORS AND TITLES


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


JOHN MILTON Photogravure from an engraving.

THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE One of Heinrich Hoffmann's wonderful
scenes in the life of Christ: the earnest, wise-faced Boy, and the eager or doubtful
but thoughtful Scribes and Doctors of the Law, are graphically depicted.

ISAAC WATTS
From a contemporary engraving.


THE HOLY NIGHT
"It was the winter wild
While the heaven-born Child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies."


From photogravure after a painting by Martin Feuerstein.


CHARLES WESLEY
From a contemporary engraving.


THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
"Knocking, knocking, ever knocking?
Who is there?
'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly,
Never such was seen before."


From photo-carbon print after the painting by Holman Hunt.


SIR GALAHAD
"My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure."


From photogravure after the painting by George Frederick Watts.

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