BE READY by J. Albret Libby

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1901

BE READY.

By J. Albret Libby

BECALMED the vessel lies at stilly eve, And all her sails fall limp as useless things; The lazy seamen, calms so oft deceive, Long for a breeze to gently lift her wings— More than a zephyr hides other skies; 'Twere best that they were watching well prepared, For in the dark the treacherous winds arise, And the unwary then are oft ensnared.

So, in the calm of worldly ease and pleasure, The listless thousands “peace and safety” cry, While up above there lurks in unseen measure The storm that wrecks the earth and breaks the sky.

—J. Albret Libby, in World's Crisis.