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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 31.

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The Home Circle.

By Hezekiah Butterworth

ON BROKEN PINION.

By the windy wiers of Weimar A Child of Nature strayed, Sweet piped the lark in the sunshine, Low fluted the thrush in the shade. But he found in the reedy morasses A lark with a broken wing, And he took to his gentle bosom The weak and helpless thing. He nursed it long and kindly, And it sung its old sweet strain, But the lark with the broken pinion Never soared as high again.
He walked in the streets of Weimar, When the winter stars, all cold, Hung over the Ilm's dark waters, Their mirrored lamps of gold, And he found a youth, life broken, By sin's seductive art, And he spoke of Heaven's sweet pity, And took him to his heart. And the youth, to regain his honor, Strove hard, and not in vain, But the soul with a broken pinion Never soars as high again.
-Hezekiah Butterworth, in Christian at Work.