GIVING by James Russell Lowell

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 11.

GIVING.

By James Russell Lowell

HE gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite,— The hand can not clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms; For a GOD goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before. —James Russell Lowell.