The Seed and the Sower

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1877

The Seed and the Sower.

EVER so little the seed may be, Ever so little the hand. But when it is sown it must grow, you see, And develop its nature, seed, flower, or tree; The sunshine, the air, and the dew are free At its command.

If the seed be good, we rejoice in hope Of the harvest it will yield; We wait and watch for its springing up, Admire its growth, and count on the crop That will come from the little seeds we drop In the great wide field.

But if we heedlessly scatter wide Seeds we may happen to find, We care not for culture, or what may betide, We sow here and there on the highway side; Whether they've lived, or whether they've died, We never mind.

Yet every sower must one day reap Fruit from the seed he has sown; How carefully then it becomes us to keep A watchful eye on the seed, and seek To sow what is good, that we may not weep To receive our own.