A Dream
Improvement Era, vol. 7, no. 9, July 1904, p. 646
W. S. Phillips
He it was who defended it against a powerful foe. It is he who has sustained it up to the present. Let us see to it that we offend him not by a "ripened iniquity."
A DREAM. (For the Improvement Era.)
Idreamed I saw two fair young lives Come from the throne of Grace; They took upon them mortal mould, Eaeh fair of form and face.
One winged its flight to stately halls; One, to a lowly cot. One chose the joys and wealth of earth, And one the pauper's lot. I saw the two walk side by side. Through childhood's flowery gate; I saw the two emerge at last To manhood's fair estate.
And he who sought the stately halls A life of pleasure led; But he who chose the lonely cot. Toiled for his daily bread.
Unfair, 1 thought, that one should have All wealth and power by birth: Forgetting there are greater things, Than powers and pelf of earth.
The scene changed to a justice court: The judge, the pauper mild; But he who stood to answer guilt, Was fortune's pampered child. And then I saw that God was just, That all his deeds are right; That oftentimes the brightest day, Succeeds the darkest night. W. S. Phillips. Weston, Idaho.