Stories Worth Rereading

<h2 id="id02080" style="margin-top: 3em">Sowing to the Flesh</h2> <p id="id02081" style="margin-top: 2em">    Are you sowing to the flesh, O youth?<br/> Have you turned your back upon the truth?<br/> Are you scattering seeds of evil<br/> From the garner of the devil?<br/> Are you thinking of the harvest<br/> By and by?<br/> Soon will spring and summer pass,<br/> Brown and sere will grow the grass;<br/> No time then for good seed-sowing:<br/> You and I<br/> Must gather what we've sown, forsooth.<br/> Are you sowing to the flesh, O youth?<br/></p> <p id="id02082">  Are you sowing to the flesh, O maid?<br/> Can you think of the harvest unafraid?<br/> Is this world your only treasure?<br/> This life all your joy and pleasure?<br/> Are you laying up no portion<br/> In the sky?<br/> He that soweth to the wind<br/> Shall a whirlwind's harvest find,<br/> And he'll see himself a pauper<br/> By and by.<br/> We must reap of what we sow, it is said:<br/> Are you sowing to the flesh, O maid?<br/></p> <h5 id="id02083">ELIZABETH ROSSER.</h5> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />