Religious Poems collection includes poems that have been put to music that are usually known as hymns, and the type of poems usually known as psalms, but there are also many religious poems that have never been put to music.
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an ]aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path,
Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath,
Because a sudden wind at twilight's hush
Had snapped her stem alone of all the bush.
And God, Who hears both sun-dried dust and sun,
Had pity, whispering to that luckless one.
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,
Other times there were one set of footprints.
One day, God was feeling bored
so, he gave his mates his word,
He said,”With you I’ll make a little bet.
I’ll design, if I can,
what will be known as Man,
It’ll be the best design that I’ve done yet”
