THE PEARL

 

AT ONCE HE KNEW HE HAD FOUND

A PEARL OF THE GREATEST HUE,

IT GLOWED AS IF LIT FROM WITHIN

WITH A LIGHT SEEN BY VERY FEW.

 

HE WANTED TO BUY THIS PRECIOUS PEARL,

YET THE PRICE WAS "OUT OF SIGHT."

HE WENT TO HIS FATHER AND DISCUSSED

WHAT COULD BE DONE THAT WAS TOTALLY RIGHT.

 

THEY DECIDED THE PEARL WAS WORTH IT ALL,

ALL THAT HE HAD EVER OWNED,

SO HE SOLD ALL HE HAD TO BUY THIS PEARL,

AND THEN HE CALLED IT HIS VERY OWN.

 

IT COST HIM ALL THAT HE HAD,

HIS KINGDOM AND HIS LIFE,

FOR WE ARE THAT PEARL,

THAT PRECIOUS PEARL.

WE ARE THAT PEARL OF GREAT PRICE.

THANK YOU, JESUS, MY LORD AND MY GOD.

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