From the Newark Evening Star, May 18, 1914. By Hezekiah Butterworth.
I walked through the woodland meadows,
Where sweet the thrushes sing;
And I found on a bed of mosses
A bird with a broken wing.
I healed its wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with the broken pinion
Never soared as high again.
I found a young life broken
By Sin’s seductive art;
And touched with a Christlike pity,
I took him to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose
And struggled not in vain;
But the life that Sin had stricken
Never soared as high again.
But the bird with a broken pinion
Kept another from the snare;
And the life that Sin had stricken
Raised another from despair.
Each loss has its compensation.
There is healing for every pain;
But the bird with a broken pinion
Never soars as high again.