Jochebed's Babe by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 40.

Jochebed's Babe

By Delwin Rees Buckner

The Nile seems noiseless, save where minnows mine Quicksilver bubbles from its quiet deep; Where long-legged, buoyant frogs elastic leap From reeling reeds to some more virile vine; Or, through the fragile waters, woven fine, Queer slime-smeared, sinuous serpents subtly creep; Or crocodiles splash—struggle—in their sleep, Like ships that strangle in the blue-sea brine. Naught more disturbs the drowsy calm—Yes; hark! 'Mid blossom bath-tubs, filled with nectared dew, Where bees wash off the tinsel from their wings, Within a tiny, pitch-daubed bulrush ark Soft weeps a Hebrew babe. Hushed maidens view One fair enough to be the heir of kings.

Isla de San Andrés, Colombia.