Will you leave
the flowers
for the crown?”
By Jeena
Aejy

I said: “Let me walk in the
fields.”

no
I said: “There are
flowers there.”

I said: “But the
black;
skies are

There is nothing
noise
but
and din. ”

air is thick,
I said: “But the
fogs
And are veiling
the sun.”

light,
I said: “I shall miss the
friends will miss me,
And
they say.”

…if I am to
miss you…
…or they.”

time
I pleaded for
to be given.

look at the
I cast one
fields,

setmy
Then face to the
town;

into His
Then
hand went mine;

into my
…..and
heart
came He;

walki
And I n a light
divine,

The path I had
feared to see….

“Obedience’
A poem
By
George MacDonald
(1824-1905)