{"1": {"fulltext": "S 3545\\n135 R3\\n900\\nopy 1\\nTHE RAINBOW BRIDGE\\nOTHER POEMS\\nAdeline W. Wildes, M. D.\\nCopyright 1900,\\nBY\\nThb Author.", "height": "3381", "width": "2074", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE RAINBOW BRIDGE\\nOTHER POEMS\\nAdeline W. Wildes, M. D.\\nCopyright 1900,\\nBY\\nThe Author.", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "cO\\n45681\\nC\\nVi o Copies KEC\u00c2\u00a3iv.\u00c2\u00a3o\\nSEP 10 1900\\nCopyright totry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDt !w?fftd to\\nOBDLR WVISION,\\nSEP 12 1900\\n74586", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE RAINBOW BRIDGE.\\nWhile with doubt, and with fear, and sorrow oppressed,\\nI wandered in search of a haven of rest.\\nI was shown through the clouds of contention and strife\\nThe rainbow bridge, spanning the river of life.\\nTwas a beautiful river, and on the far shore\\nWere gathered the friends who had passed on before.\\nThere were parents and children, and husband and wife\\nBy the rainbow bridge, spanning the river of life.\\nAll waiting to take their loved ones by the hand,\\nAnd lead them away to the bright summer land.\\nWhere the sick are made whole, and the weary find rest.\\nWhere doubt cannot enter, nor sorrow distress.\\nThere, angels too beauteous for mortals to view\\nWere constantly passing, by one and by two\\nBearing tenderly onward toward the blest day.\\nThe souls just released from their fetters of clay.\\nAnd most rapturous music was borne in on the air.\\nAs it swept o er that beautiful river so fair\\nChanted forth by the glorified spirits who come\\nTo greet their loved friends with a glad welcome home.\\nThe rainbow bridge ne er hath by mortal been trod,\\nTis the highway cast up for the angels of God,\\nThey patiently wait by the evergreen shore.\\nFor never a. soul a/one doth pass o er.\\nOh beautiful thought, that the angels of love\\nAre waiting to waft us to mansions above,\\nWhen we re done with this world, with its cares and its strife,\\nO er the rainbow bridge, spanning the river of life.", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "INVOCATION.\\nThou, spirit of love and of light,\\nWho ruleth the great and the small,\\nWho madest the day, and the night\\nThe creator of each and of all.\\nLook down from Thy realm upon high,\\nAccept Thou the tribute we bring.\\nThou, who hearest the young raven s cry,\\nOh list as our anthems we sing.\\nSend thou, from thy kingdom above.\\nThy angels with lamps all alight\\nTo teach us of truth and of love,\\nAnd guide to the pathway of right.\\nTill all nations shall hallow thy name,\\nAll praise to the Father be given,\\nAnd Thy will shall be cheerfully done,\\nOn earth, as it is in heaven.", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A VISION.\\nAs I stood and gazed on the eastern sky,\\nMyriads of angels seemed passing by\\nAnd to earth they came so very near,\\nTheir rustling garments, methought I could hear.\\nTheir faces shone with such radiant light,\\nThat my eyes could hardly bear the sight\\nAnd the tones of their voice were wondrous clear,\\nAs they fell on my enraptured ear.\\nI stretched forth my hand, as if to stay\\nThose messengers bright, from the realms of day\\nBut they only gave me a passing look,\\nAnd onward, still onward, their course they took.\\nWhither, Oh whither, at last I cried,\\nSail ye so fast on the ambient tide\\nThen one who was fairer then, all. the rest,\\nTarried, answering thus to my request.\\nWe are come direct from our home above.\\nWhere all dwell in peace, and in brotherly love.\\nWe were sent to sow with an open hand\\nThe seeds of truth, in the lower land.\\nTo rouse into life and active duty.\\nFlowers, which had nearly lost their beauty,\\nBlighted and crushed in the bloom of youth,\\nIn unequal struggle for right and truth.\\nTo root out the tares from the sterling wheat.\\nAll guile and hypocrisy force to retreat\\nAnd never till truth hath regained her lost sway,\\nShall we cease from our labor, by night or by day.\\nThen bending upon me, his mild eyes of blue,\\nHe receded, and finally passed from my view\\nBut the vision, to me, was so clear and so plain,\\nThat its impress upon me will ever remain.", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "LOVE.\\nAs I sat me down at the close of day,\\nTo muse upon scenes long since passed,\\nI heard a voice, and it seemed to say,\\nYou have found the key at last.\\nThe key, I said then it answered me,\\nYou have pondered, full long and late,\\nAs to what the redeeming power should be\\nThat shall conquer strife, envy and hate.\\nAnd oft as you listened you seemed to hear\\nThe low-whispered answer of love.\\nIt shall banish all doubt, remove every fear,\\nAnd rule earth as it ruleth above.\\nAnd so shall it be, for love is the key\\nThat shall wide open many a door.\\nRevealing to men their treasures are free,\\nAlike to the rich and the poor.\\nFor love, like unto King David s harp,\\nShall soothe grief, sorrow and pain.\\nShall quell contention and discord sharp\\nWhere erst, they were wont to reign.\\nShall help mankind their pride subdue\\nTo greet each one as a brother.\\nBid them be gentle, strong and true.\\nAnd deal justly with each other.\\nThe glorious day is drawing nigh,\\nWhen soon, o er every nation,\\nShall love s noble banner waving high,\\nProclaim man s regeneration.", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "DO WE KNOW EACH OTHER HERE.\\nDo we know each other here\\nParents, friends, or children dear,\\nThose we meet in daily life.\\nComrades in the common strife.\\nDo we know each other here\\nWise or simple, strange or queer,\\nSharing each the common lot,\\nTo live, love, die, and be forgot.\\nDo we know each other here\\nUnderstand the doubt and fear,\\nDwelling in our neighbor s breast,\\nCausing pain and dire unrest.\\nDo we know each other here?\\nCan we feel the hidden tear\\nOf an aching heart distressed,\\nThough by force of will repressed.\\nDo we know each other here\\nDo we give the v/ord of cheer\\nTo those, sitting with their dead,\\nWhen all faith and hope are fled.\\nDeadened aims and fond desires\\nBuried neath the smouldering fires\\nOf greed, of envy, hate and strife.\\nShattered idols of a misspent life.\\nDo we know each other here\\nDo we lend a willing ear.\\nStrive to comfort those who mourn.\\nFor the loved ones from them borne.\\nDo we know each other here\\nAs we gather round the bier\\nDo we point the better way.\\nLeading unto endless day.\\nWe shall know each other there,\\nWe their bliss and joy shall share\\nAnd through love, which has no peer,\\nWe may know each other here.", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "HOPE.\\nWhen sailing o er the sea of life,\\nThe dark clouds lower, and storms are rife,\\nAnd rough winds toss our trembling barque,\\nNo compass near, our course to mark.\\nWith strength and courage almost gone,\\nFeeling forsaken and alone,\\nNor sun, nor moon, appears to guide,\\nIn darkness, left to stem the tide.\\nGroping our way, mid doubt and care.\\nWith us our burdens none to share\\nWhile sore distressed, our bosoms swell,\\nThere comes the whisper all is well.\\nLook up my child, and see the light,\\nAnd there, beyond the gathering night.\\nShedding its cheering rays afar,\\nBehold Hope s mildly beaming star.\\nThough seeming sometimes lost to sight,\\nIt shineth still forever bright;\\nBut would you see, with vision clear,\\nYou forth must drive all doubt and fear.\\nAnd bow unto the Father s will,\\nTrusting in His unerring skill,\\nTho tempests rise, and billows roar,\\nTo guide you safely to the shore.\\nWhere parents, friends, and children meet,\\nAnd once again hold converse sweet\\nWhere death is not nor^ grief, nor pain.\\nWhere joy and peace forever reign.\\nThen let your faith and hope be strong\\nAt farthest, it will not be long,\\nEre the shoals and quicksands of life are passed.\\nAnd you re safe in the harbor of home at last.", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TO H. D. C.\\nOh, lady fair, with soft silvery hair.\\nAnd eyes which are pleasant to view\\nFor a heart true and strong, to help others along,\\nPeeps out neath their curtain of blue.\\nIt seemeth somelimes when friends prove unkind,\\nAnd assume the position of foes,\\nAs if you would gladh^ cast all to the vnnd,\\nAnd fly from your troubles and woes.\\nFor often, too often, dear lady I ween,\\nHave you cherished within your warm breast\\nNot a dove but a serpent, whose sting was so keen\\nAs to rob you of peace and of rest.\\nAnd this in return for the kindness and love\\nWhich in days that are passed you have shovv^n.\\nOh no one can know but the angels above\\nHow your heart tho in silence made moan.\\nBut look for the light, for after the night\\nComes the morning, so bright and so fair.\\nWhen the true in their might shall rise up and the right\\nShall all wrong and injustice repair.\\nEre your mission is done, the work just begun,\\nThe crown of success you shall wear.\\nIn your labor of love, the kind angels above,\\nWill aid you and lighten your care.\\nThen broadcast the seed, for many have need,\\nThose grand and true lessons to know.\\nWhich to them you read, and so they give heed,\\nWill save them from sorrow and woe.\\nThen with heart and with hand, till life s river is spanned,\\nStrike home for the truth and the right.\\nTill no more in our land shall tyranny stand,\\nFor darkness doth flee from the light.\\nAnd when your life s sun slowly sinks in the west,\\nAnd you hear the death angel say come.\\nAs you calm o er your breast, fold your earth hands to rest,\\nLoving angels shall bear you safe home.", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "IN MEMORIAM.\\nFaithful heart, so true and tender,\\nThou art freed from care and pain\\nWe are left to mourn thy absence,\\nYet our loss is but thy gain.\\nThou hast gained the crown immortal,\\nThou has solved the mystery,\\nThou hast passed within the portal\\nOf the great eternity.\\nInto joy and bliss supernal,\\nInto rest and perfect peace,\\nInto climes forever vernal.\\nWhere all doubts and trials cease.\\nAll thy love and fond endeavor,\\nIn our hearts will e er remain.\\nLinks which time nor death can sever,\\nOf an endless golden chain.\\nNow, with light of love still burning.\\nThou art lingering near the gates.\\nFor thy child whose steps are turning\\nToward the place where mother waits.\\nOh supreme the bliss of meeting\\nWith our dear ones gone before.\\nAs with gladsome songs of greeting.\\nShout they welcome from the shore.\\nThough the tears of grief and sadness.\\nFrom my eyes may thickly fall.\\nSteals there yet a ray of gladness,\\nFor I list my mothers call.", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY\\nOF MODERN SPIRITUALISM.\\nTell me what progress have ye made,\\nOh struggling souls of earth,\\nWhere have the corner stones been laid\\nTo mark fair freedom s birth\\nStones upon which to rear aloft,\\nTowering toward heaven s blue sky,\\nTemples, wherein the truth is taught,\\nThat man can never die.\\nFreedom to think, to speak, to know,\\nFreedom to live aright.\\nPromise of rest from sin and woe\\nOut of the darkness light.\\nThat they who pass to realms above,\\nFreed from all care and pain,\\nDo live and fondly, truly love,\\nBound by a golden chain.\\nGlory to God good will to men.\\nHear ye the sweet refrain\\nChanted by voices soft and low.\\nPeace peace, on earth shall reign.\\nThen fling our banner to the breeze,\\nLet hills and vales awake,\\nWhile birds, and flowers, and quivering leaves,\\nA glorious concord make.\\nNever to trail in falsehood s mire,\\nNever for fear or gain.\\nFloating untouched by flood or fire,\\nO er mountain top and main.\\nTill in the east and in the west,\\nIn every clime and nation,\\nIt s spotless folds in triumph wave\\nO er man s emancipation.\\nFrom dogmas, bigotry and creed.\\nFrom mystery and error,\\nFrom fear of endless punishment.\\nFrom death, its gloom and terror.\\nEmblem of purity and truth.\\nOf love, to all mankind,\\nJustice, alike to age and youth,\\nWisdom and power divine.", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "INVOCATION.\\nOur Father, God, Spirit of truth, of wisdom and of love.\\nUpon thy earthly children now from thy bright home above\\nA blessing send, and let thy ministering angels hover o er,\\nInto our weary souls the Balm of Gilead pour.\\nAnd as we, day by day, with newly quickened sight,\\nBehold in all thy works thy majesty and might\\nIn Nature s varied forms, thy power and wisdom see,\\nMay we all strive to dwell in loving harmony.\\nM", "height": "3392", "width": "1979", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "rainbowbridgeoth00wild_0017.jp2"}, "18": 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