SEEK TRUTH by Willis Leonard Clanahan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 42.

SEEK TRUTH.

By Willis Leonard Clanahan

Met a traveler on a stony way. “Where fare you, brother?” And I made reply, “I seek Contentment. It is far, they say, Yet sweet streams flow there and cool shadows lie.

“But few the way to that fair land have found, Tho for it millions eagerly have sought, And few have stood on that enchanted ground, Tho of its joys they’ve dreamed, and for them fought.

“I chose Ambition. ‘Surely this,’ I said, ‘Will lead me to this country of delight.’ It ended in a dark morass, instead, With not one star to pierce the rayless night.

“I sought for Riches. ‘This will lead me there!’ I cried, expectant; but tho wealth I massed, The roadway to Content lay otherwhere, And onward o’er the dreary way I passed.

“I sought for Love to light me to the goal, But even Love, whose charms so much delight, Led me in mazes, and my weary soul Languished in gloom. Ah, who shall lead aright?”

The wayworn traveler took me by the hand, And earnestly he gazed into my eyes. “Seek Truth,” he said, “to know and understand, In Truth the secret of Contentment lies.” —Willis Leonard Clanahan.