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Why Not to Me?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 11, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 45.

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Why Not to Me?

By A. L. Vail

A BIRD that dies upon the wing, A bird that nevermore shall sing, May, dying, breathe a broken song, That, borne by genial winds along, Shall cheer, beneath a mournful star, A weary soul who plods afar From where the smitten songster fell, Unable all to even tell Whence came the song.
If thus unto a bird is given The power to send its music riven, A messenger of peace and healing, Some glint of hope and love revealing, Why not to me, though rude my singing, If from a loyal heart upspringing, Be granted gift of song or story, For man and God, for grace and glory, To right some wrong?
— A. L. Vail, in Baptist Commonwealth.