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Not Mine the Praise

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 29.

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Not Mine the Praise

By D. R. Buckner

IF I can reach a heart, swing back the door, And let a ray of light shine from above; If I can drop but one sweet word of love, Where hate abode and tyrannized before; If I can ease a heartache or a pain, Prevent, or wipe away, a falling tear, The world is better for my being here; My life has not been wholly lived in vain; But tho I help some plodding pilgrim on; Altho I cheer my neighbor with a smile, I ask that thanks may not be given me, But to that One who aids at dusk and dawn, Who, brother-like, stands by in every trial, Who well can aid, for He was tried as we.
D. R. BUCKNER.
Ambato, Ecuador.