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Show 184 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER wrote a poem of girlish freshness in celebration of Elizabeth's coming-of-age. This is a hiking verse; in ballad measure the lines pace off the miles with a cheerful, swinging step. Madelyn extols the lilting freedom to be found on "an unhampered, beckoning trail." SPRING LURE Do you feel the lilt in the cool, fresh air, As it kisses the bloom on your cheek? Do you see the mist on the mountain top, Enticing us on to seek The violets purpling the sunny knolls, And tempting the swollen creek? Do you like the feel of the furry buds That climb the pussy willow? Do you long for the thrill of the warm, live earth? With a bit of young moss for your pillow? Do you long for the stretch ahead of you Of an unhampered, beckoning trail, Where the wide blue arch of the friendly sky Sounds the plaintive call of the quail? Then come, let's off to the hills again, Where adventures without end Go flying ahead of us, hear them now, A chuckling round the bend; Ah, we'll make the most of them, won't we now, Each one is a new-found friend. The spirit of the poem reinforced Madelyn'S belief that men and women are special children of God, and that because Divine Parents impart something of their own nature to their children, humans can think of themselves as Gods in embryo, being able to continue on the path their Parents started them on. Being parents in mortality is an opportunity to share in God's divine, creative work. Lorenzo Snow used this couplet, which he said was inspired by Joseph Smith's sermons: "As man as is, God once was; as God is, man may become." This meant |
