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Pruning
From POEMS by Annie Johnson Flint. Used by permission of the publishers, Evangelical Publishers, Toronto. The Disciplines of Life, by Raymond V. Edman (Minneapolis: World Wide Publ., 1948), p. 228.
Pruning
From POEMS by Annie Johnson Flint. Used by permission of the publishers, Evangelical Publishers, Toronto. The Disciplines of Life, by Raymond V. Edman (Minneapolis: World Wide Publ., 1948), p. 228.
It is the branch that bears the fruitThat feels the knife,
To prune it for a larger growth
Though every budding twig be loppedAnd every grace
Of swaying tendril, springing leaf
Oh, thou whose life of joy seems reft,Of beauty shorn,
Whose aspirations lie in dust,
Rejoice, though each desire, each dream,Each hope of thine
Shall fall and fade; it is the hand of love divine
With tenderest touch,That thou, whose life hast borne some fruit,
- Annie Johnson Flint.