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Truth Never Dies

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 27, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 42.

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Truth Never Dies

TRUTH never dies. The ages come and go; The mountains wear away; the seas retire; Destruction lays earth's mighty cities low; And empires, states, and dynasties expire; But caught and handed onward by the wise, Truth never dies.
Tho unreceived and scoffed at through the years; Tho made the butt of ridicule and jest; Tho held aloft for mockery and jeers, Denied by those of transient power possessed, Insulted by the insolence of lies, Truth never dies.
Truth answers not; it does not take offense; But with a mighty silence bides its time, As some great cliff that braves the elements, And lifts through all the storms its head sublime, So truth, unmoved, its puny foes defies, And never dies.
The lips of ridicule dissolve in dust; The sophist's arguments, the jibes, are still; God, working through the all-compelling Must, Has broken those who dared combat His will; New systems, born in wild unrest, arise; Truth never dies.
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