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RECOMPENSE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 50.

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RECOMPENSE.

By Rosetta Lunt Sutton

Buffeting with the ills of life, Friend, is thy courage failing? Hearest thou through its peans proud The undertone of wailing?
Leaving the valley where roses bloomed And musical streams were meeting, Feeling the wind from the mountains blow, Lift up thy brow in greeting.
Lose not heart, though the tempest rage; Why shouldst thou shrink in terror? Lo! how the thunderbolts of Truth Shiver the rocks of Error!
What if thy delicate garlands die Treading the flints of duty? Yonder wait for thy hands' caress The amaranth's fadeless beauty.
Christ is the King of glory, too, Although he was Lord of sorrow, And over the dark hills of to-day Radiant shines to-morrow. —Rosetta Lunt Sutton.