p. 5 | Betrayed by Brothers by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 17, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 41.

Betrayed by Brothers

By Delwin Rees Buckner

Bones, scarred and sun-bleached, streak the burned, blazed sand, Each shivering skeleton a gruesome grave, Whose pale, wind-weared, fragile fragments pave The lean, parched path that leads to Pharaoh's land, O'er which a money-chinking merchant band Lash on a lagging, half-nude Hebrew slave, Loud chuckling at the paltry price they gave Into each brother's base, perfidious hand. Cruel, soulless brothers! As they stilly stare In glutted glee upon the ruby blood That splashes from the throat-embedded knife On Joseph's coat, they nothing are aware That some day he will furnish them with food, And be the savior of their famished life.