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IN THE ROUGH

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 5, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 14.

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IN THE ROUGH.

The marble was pure and white Though only a block at best, But the artist, with inward sight, Looked farther than all the rest, And saw in the hard, rough stone, The loveliest statue the sun shone on.
So he set to work with care, And chiseled a form of grace— A figure divinely fair, With a tender, beautiful face: But the blows were hard and fast That brought from the marble that work at last.
So I think that human lives Must bear God's chisel keen, If the spirit yearns and strives For the better life unseen. For men are only blocks at best, Till the chiseling brings out all the rest. —Sel.