The Broken Vase

1 Long a small crack’d vase had waited
Near a lonely garden walk,
Nursing lofty aspirations,
How it wish’d that it could talk,
For it then would be the gard’ner
To give it a lofty place,
For a very high ambition
Had this little broken vase;
For a very high ambition
Had this little broken vase.

2 Years pass’d by; a lovely lily
Came into the gard’ner’s care,
One that needed tender culture
To display it’s beauty rare,
Now the vase so long unnoticed,
Broken into fragments small,
Took its place beneath the lily,
Saying, “Master is this all?”
Took its place beneath the lily,
Saying, “Master is this all?”

3 Then the lily bloom’d in beauty
And its fragrance filled the air,
For the soil mixed with vase fragments
Made it bloom beyond compare,
May we ne’er become disheartened,
Some must suffer here below,
And some day our Lord will show us
Why He ever willed it so;
And some day our Lord will show us
Why He ever willed it so.


Source: Sunday School and Revival: with Y.M.C.A. supplement #66

• MIDI file from Sunday School and Revival: with Y.M.C.A. supplement #66