Small Beginnings by Delvin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 22.

Small Beginnings

By Delvin Rees Buckner

Half hidden in the crevice of a wall, The writhing cobra lifts her crested hood, Injects her venom in the Hindu's blood, And then recoils to watch her victim fall; The pine, appealing heavenward, so tall And firmly rooted, which for years has stood Within the spicy shadows of the wood, Receives at last the spark that powders all Her hopes. Effects are often grandly great Altho the cause seems wonderfully small; Beneath the limbs of the forbidden tree, Eve little dreamed the juicy fruit she ate Would be the fatal origin of all Earth's centuries of pain and misery.