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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 5, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 1.

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GRAPES AND THORNS.

By Alice Cary

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe, gold ears, Until we have first been sowers, And watered the furrows with tears.
Is it not just as we take it— This mystical world of ours? Life's field will yield as we make it, A harvest of thorns or flowers. —Alice Cary.