“Mary’s Oxen,” New Era, July 2001, 51
Mary’s Oxen
A tribute to Mary Fielding Smith
It was your privilege to bear silently
the burden of wood and flesh,
to breathe the dust
stirred by hooves and wheel on your trek.
Your mistress urged you on,
and you bravely complied,
as if sensing the approaching Zion
that filled her heart with zeal.