Speak While I Am Alive to Hear by Margaret J. Preston

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 33.

Speak While I Am Alive to Hear

By Margaret J. Preston

WHAT use for the rope, if it be not flung Till the swimmer’s grasp to the rock has clung? What help in a comrade’s bugle-blast When the peril of Alpine heights is past? What need that the spurring pæan roll When the runner is safe beyond the goal? What worth is eulogy’s blandest breath When whispered in ears that are hushed in death? No! no! if you have but a word of cheer, Speak it while I am alive to hear! —Margaret J. Preston.