Pearls Before Swine by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 29, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 17.

Pearls Before Swine

By Delwin Rees Buckner

The swine, assaulted in his bath of mud, Fast inundates the air with peal on peal Of fear as his indented muscles feel Assassin knees, while on the blazing wood He eyes the caldron with its frothing flood, And sees the red-faced butcher poised to deal The blow, low brandishing the frozen steel Which soon will thaw within his steaming blood. Not otherwise the filthy herd who spurn Rare pearls of truth, and stamp them in the mire— Gems of such beauty, purity, and worth— Will wail and gnash their teeth meanwhile they burn Within the fierce, annihilating fire Which fumigates the wallows of the earth.

Solis, Argentina.