Elijah's Gethsemane by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 9, 1912

Elijah's Gethsemane

By Delwin Rees Buckner

A juniper, jammed into space a hand Might hide, singed by heat-bloated winds that creep In sorry solitude across the steep, Humpbacked, so badly dwarfed, it seems to stand The crippled captain of a boulder band That look like dolphins, dozing in the deep, Or smooth-skinned seals which all unconscious sleep Upon the slopings of some rock-ribbed sand.

Prone fallen on the stingy-shaded sod, Jehovah's prophet, mantled by a veil, Pours out his racking, pent-up grief aloud, Dumb, silent death his sole desire of God, Believing that before base, bestial Baal All knees besides his loyal own have bowed.

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.