Each Stone

In Remembrance of the Builders of the Salt Lake Temple

 

Each stone tells a story

Of sacrifice and tears.

Each stone cut and fashioned

O'er forty long hard years.

 

Each stone hewn and chiseled

From a mountain granite slab,

Perfected by the builder's hands

So the builder's work would last.

 

Each stone is a watchman

That stands a silent proof

Of heaven's sweet distilling

When men but seek for truth.

 

All these stones together

One fitting monument

To the builders of the temple

Who understood just what it meant.

 

Copyright 1997 by Layne S. Porter