Poems (Hoffman)/One and Another
ONE AND ANOTHER
One is searching in the highwaysFor a budding life to blight,One is toiling in the bywaysFor a soul that's lost in night,Pointing to the distant skywaysWhere God's stars are still in sight.
One a country's law is makingOn a high and noble plan,While another one is breakingAll the laws of right he can;Bold, defying and forsakingThe commands of God and man.
One in battle wounds his brother,Leaves him bleeding on the field,Far from friends and home and mother,Mercy vainly hath appealed;Yet with tenderest care anotherBinds his wounds till they are healed.