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Benevolence by Daniel Clement Colesworthy

Give, although your heart may never
To a grateful tear respond;
Deeds of kindness bless forever,
Reaching to the world beyond.

Do you see the air that closes
When the arrow speedeth by?
Or the scents that rise from roses?
Or the spirit's glancing eye?

So you never may discover
Where a kindly act shall fall,
Nor the angel hosts that hover,
Watching and directing-all.

Give not grudgingly but freely,
With a heart allied to God,
And your alms will prove to be the
Winglets scattering love abroad.

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The Feast-time of the Year by Dora Read Goodale

This is the feast-time of the year,
When plenty pours her wine of cheer,
And even humble boards may spare
To poorer poor a kindly share.
While bursting barns and granaries know
A richer, fuller overflow.
And they who dwell in golden ease
Blest without toil, yet toil to please.

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Requitals by Amos Russel Wells

Hast a present? Be not swift
To return a gift for gift.
Thus the shallow mirror's face
Backward flings the approaching grace.

Rather ape that magic plate
Where the eager fluids wait
Some appeal of joy, to laugh
In a lasting photograph!

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Help In Need by James McIntyre

A poor man's horse it ran away,
Soon man upon the roadside lay,
With his leg all badly broken,
Of sympathy some gave token.

One said your trouble grieves my heart,
But with his money would not part,
Another said, while heaving sighs,
It brings the tears into mine eyes.

But a good true hearted man,
His heart with kindness it o'er ran,
The poorest man among the three,
A pound he did contribute free.

Others gave in empty feeling,
But this poor man he did bring healing,
The giver only Lord doth prize,
Who helps afflicted for to rise.