The City's Heartless Heart by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 16, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 19.

The City's Heartless Heart

By Delwin Rees Buckner

In desert solitudes, where night-hawks fly, And howling bands of queer coyotes greet Their comrades of the bush; where rab- bits' feet Map zigzag routes of new discovery,— There ne'er feel I so lonesome as when I, A stranger, tread some crowded city's street Where every hurried person that I meet Seems naught to care if I do live or die, But tho unthinking man may pass me by Like some cold statue, with its rigid face That never sees but only straight ahead, I know there's One who'll listen to my cry For help: He will provide some resting- place, And see that I am sheltered, clothed, and fed.