Poem February 19, 1944 Issue

"The Lord shall rise"

(Isaiah 28:21)

LAURA BROWN CROWELL

The Lord shall rise as at Mount Perazim,
That nations may behold His mighty power;
The plowman plows his furrows deep and trim
Before the seed is sown which yields the flour;
Then must the wheat be ground, the chaff destroyed,
Before the flour is kneaded into bread.
Thus every needful process is employed,
And every fruitful grain is harvested.

Our God has promised He will overturn
Until His Christ shall rule, whose right it is;
As at Mount Perazim the Lord shall rise
The wheat to garner, and the chaff to burn,
Till earth be purged of unrealities,
And man discerns his brother with new eyes.