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Poems

THE HARVEST

From the June 1972 issue of The Christian Science Journal


I looked at my brother's field
and I saw tares
and I saw wheat

but I wept over the tares
and forgot to joy
over the wheat

and then I thought
"I will try to rid him of his tares.
Yes, I will pull out these ugly weeds."

But as I pulled a tare,
a stalk of wheat on either side
was uprooted
and fell unto the ground.

And so I stopped to listen,
and the answer came.

I turned back to my own field
and cultivated and cared
for my crop

so that when the harvest came,
we both bundled and burned our tares
and we both reaped our wheat
and shared in the multitude of our harvest.

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