POEM No. 10: “But the Wise Shall Understand” (Dan. 12:10)
By: Bro. (Mr.). Charles Grabill, Jr. (California, USA)
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“O Soul! Awake! Swing wide thy, gate!–
The King! He brings, in ‘No. 8,’
More butter from His kine and sheep;
Yea, honey too! O Soul, why sleep!
Arouse thee from thy deathly swoon,
And of the Holy Spirit’s boon–
The rare, the fine, the large, the stern delight-
Let feast thy sicklied appetite!–
Behold: The ‘Hands,’ the ‘Sticks,’ the ‘Scroll,’
The ‘Stars” the ‘Lion,’ ‘Hour,’ and ‘Rod’–
The mystic ‘Seven’ that unroll
The crowning work on earth of God!”
O Brother, Sister, far and nigh,
O ye who truly sigh and cry
And rightly do these lines construe,
Here’s honey more for each of you:
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There were two qualified papers selected by the judges, as the best answers to the poem, one of which was written by Mrs. John Wilson and the other by Mr. Charles Grabill, Jr., both of California. Mrs. Wilson, besides giving her interpretation in prose, also submitted an answer in poetry. As the prose answers are virtually of equal merit, the editors of the Code decided to publish the poem which immediately follows this article.
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