The Broken Pinion
I walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing;
And I found on a bed of mosses
A bird with a broken wing.
I healed its wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with a broken pinion
Never soared as high again.
I found a young life broken
By sin’s seductive art;
And touched with a Christ-like pity,
I took him to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose
And struggled not in vain;
But the life that sin had stricken
Never soared as high again.
But the bird with a broken pinion
Kept another from the snare;
And the life that sin had stricken
Raised another from despair.
Each loss has its compensation,
There is healing for every pain;
But the bird with a broken pinion
Never soars as high again.
by Hezekiah Butterworth
Hezekiah Butterworth was born on 22 December 1839 in Warren, Rhode Island, United States of America. He became a world traveler, a writer, a lecturer, and a poet. Hezekiah Butterworth passed on at 65 years of age on 5 September 1905 in Warren, Rhode Island, United States of America.
I walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing;
And I found on a bed of mosses
A bird with a broken wing.
I healed its wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with a broken pinion
Never soared as high again.
I found a young life broken
By sin’s seductive art;
And touched with a Christ-like pity,
I took him to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose
And struggled not in vain;
But the life that sin had stricken
Never soared as high again.
But the bird with a broken pinion
Kept another from the snare;
And the life that sin had stricken
Raised another from despair.
Each loss has its compensation,
There is healing for every pain;
But the bird with a broken pinion
Never soars as high again.
by Hezekiah Butterworth
Hezekiah Butterworth was born on 22 December 1839 in Warren, Rhode Island, United States of America. He became a world traveler, a writer, a lecturer, and a poet. Hezekiah Butterworth passed on at 65 years of age on 5 September 1905 in Warren, Rhode Island, United States of America.
