The One Ideal City by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 48.

The One Ideal City

By Delwin Rees Buckner

Proud cities in this selfish world I've seen, Their towers, like fingers, lifted toward the sky, Great storied heaps of steel, almost as high As mammoth mountains, with their murky screen Of lavender; and yet, for all their green Of parks and avenues that please the eye, One hears the starving with their stifled cry, And sees the shambles of the sick and lean. One certain city only is there, where No poverty or pain will ever dwell, And even troubled tears will never be,— The place our Lord has hastened to prepare, Where fountains of eternal waters well, And life is measured by eternity.

Clara, Argentina.