Cast upon the crags, a pearl
shimmered beside the deep abyss;
a lovely but very lonesome girl,
who saw the cold world as it is.
"No blissful realm to stay for long,"
she heard in the water's ocean-song.
But small she was, and wide the world;
she feared what living in it brings.
In her mind, many sorrows unfurled;
the dark waves told her of these things.
The ocean-voice she could not quell,
nor go back to her quiet shell.
"Listen deep, O pearl, then deeper still,"
the water-words intoned to her.
"A King rules here with a higher Will,
with purposes both good and sure."
"After your griefs, He will reach down
to set you ever in His golden crown."
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