EDELWEISS by Ola Moore

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 48.

EDELWEISS

By Ola Moore

[The edelweis is a beautiful white blossom which grows on the highest peaks of the Alps. The word itself means “honor white.”]

GOD loves His mountains; on the height The day dawns first, When from the ebon cave of night The sunbeams burst, And there, in amethyst and gold, The dying lights Fall softly when the day is old; God loves His heights.

Last touch of beauty, there He set His edelweiss, To gem some mountain minaret Of snow and ice; So near the stars these rugged crests Have dared to rise, Perchance the blossoms on their breasts Fell from the skies.

Tho life be often bare and bleak With sacrifice, God grant to us, as to the peak, His edelweiss; Some starry blossom in the snow That chills us here, By whose white token we may know His skies are near!

—Ola Moore.