The Home Circle | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1879

The Home Circle.

THE DIFFERENCE.

Two babes were born in the self-same town, On the very same bright day; They laughed and cried in their mothers' arms In the very self-same way. And both were as pure and as innocent As falling flakes of snow, But one of them lived in the terraced house, And one in the street below.

Two children played in the self-same town, And the children both were fair, But one had her curls brushed smooth and round, The other had tangled hair. Both of the children grew apace, As all our children grow, But one of them lived in the terraced house, And one in the street below.

Two maidens wrought in the self-same town, And one was wedded and loved, The other saw through the curtain's part, The world where her sister moved. And one was smiling, a happy bride, The other knew care and woe, For one of them lived in the terraced house, And one in the street below.

Two women lay dead in the self-same town, And one had tender care, The other was left to die alone, On her pallet so thin and bare. One had many to mourn her loss, For the other few tears would flow, For one had lived in the terraced house, And one in the street below.

If Jesus, who died for rich and poor, In wonderful, holy love, Takes both of the sisters in his arms, And carries them up above; Then all the difference vanished at last, For in heaven none will know Which of them lived in the terraced house, And which in the street below. —Advocate and Guardian.