"Neither do I condemn thee"

VIVIAN M. KUENZLI

And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.—John 8:11.

IN song, in speech, and in story,
Sounds ever the sad refrain:
The bird with the broken pinion
Soars never so high again!

And the listening heart grows heavy,
And deeper the lines of care;
For few there be but encounter
And enter the fowler's snare.

And the "Surely He shall deliver"
Seems robbed of its joyous strain,
When we hear that the broken pinion
Soars never so high again!

But hark to the song of triumph!
And gaze on the wondrous flight!
For sure as our strength is weakness,
So surely His strength is might!

No fear from the flight of the arrow
When He has delivered His own;
The soaring wing was but weaker
When it trusted its strength, alone!

For the bird with the broken pinion,
Or the heart with the scarlet stain,
When borne aloft by His angels,
Sinks never so low again.

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