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Chapter 19: Renewal of Strength.

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The collection gathers short lyric and occasional poems that move between intimate domestic remembrance, devotional reflection, and pointed social commentary. Several lyrics cherish maternal memory and nature; others draw on faith and small objects to consider human place in the cosmos. Public-spirited pieces address interracial fellowship, educational uplift, and the call for justice and peace, while satirical and moral poems critique gendered double standards and social hypocrisy. Overall the poems balance tenderness and moral urgency, blending personal feeling with reformist conviction.

Renewal of Strength.

The prison-house in which I live
Is falling to decay,
But God renews my spirit’s strength,
Within these walls of clay.

For me a dimness slowly creeps
Around earth’s fairest light,
But heaven grows clearer to my view,
And fairer to my sight.

It may be earth’s sweet harmonies
Are duller to my ear,
But music from my Father’s house
Begins to float more near.

Then let the pillars of my home
Crumble and fall away;
Lo, God’s dear love within my soul
Renews it day by day.