p. 7 | Let There Be Light by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

"Let There Be Light"

By Delwin Rees Buckner

(Based on a Spanish Poem)

By Delwin Rees Buckner

WHERE hast thou gone, blind Night, within whose ears Ride fears, by which the human heart is torn? The pale, sad, pensive moon — where hast thou borne Her and the train of countless silent stars? Behold the sun! High heaven's dome he gilds, And clothes the universe with hues divine, Within whose light the painted flowerets shine, The living green of meadows and of hills. The sun behold, at whose first blazing spark Chaotic earth aroused from sleep profound — A slumber passed within thy lap, O Night; Began upon its axis then to mark The hour-winged days — revolving round and round — The evening, darkness, and the morning, light.

Ambato, Ecuador.