" . . . that they might go up to the temple to hear the words which king Benjamin should speak unto them."
Zaraf was a goodly man in Zarahemla living;
he kept the law of Moses and was quiet and forgiving.
He got the call to hear the king upon the temple hill,
but since the day was cloudy and there was a little chill,
he thought it best to keep his fam'ly home that fateful day,
and so they missed a turning point in history's bright way.
His neighbors shared their feelings and he read the parchment scroll
of what the king had taught them and impressed upon their soul;
but Zaraf ever after mourned the blessings he had missed
because he let the weather keep him from that holy tryst.
And so may we deny ourselves of joys that but increase
if we allow ourselves to turn aside from mere caprice.
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