“The Conversion of a Young Man in England: 1854,” New Era, Mar. 1979, 9
The Conversion of a Young Man in England: 1854
he came upon the meeting in the grove
among the leaning
green and golden oaks.
without a cloudless vision of the why
he came, and waited
in a thinning dawn—
and others like himself, he reckoned, came
and listened, taut,
beside him in the oaks,
while dawn began to thin like parting fog
among the leaves
and in the way of sky.
along the warming ground the sound arose
of waiting, like
arousing bees—young wind
sang on the warm as lark calls, thinned and drawn.
the panes of sky
went soft, and then the sun
fell dappled on the words the elder said
among the leaning
green and golden oaks