Sowing and Reaping by Albert Carey

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 23, 1911

Sowing and Reaping

By Albert Carey

ALBERT CAREY

Some sow in joy, and reap in tears A harvest full of crushing woe. The future has no weight to them, To-day bears all they care to know.

But ah! alas the fatal goal, Swung nearer by the haste for glee, Has ne'er a joy, but only tears,— A hopeless, waste eternity.

But some there are who sow in tears; The passing joys of time are spurned, And eyes, bedewed by pangs of grief, Toward a better world are turned.

Earth's luring pleasures, tempting smiles, Its teasing gaieties and dance, Are turned aside as Satan's wiles To stay the soul's sublime advance.

But seed sown wisely, wet with tears, Springs up, though sin and cares annoy, And for the sower's latest years A harvest bears of endless joy.

Nortons, Ore.