A curio unique

And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.

2 Nephi 4:19

My soul is on the stretch, to find a mote of joy,

in the depths of life, where I feel like a toy;

Dangled on the strings of passion and despair,

or stuffed with sawdust dry -- a vacant teddy bear.

But He who made me thus, a curio unique,

I trust to lead me on to happy highest peak

where all my silly ways and idiotic pride

will slip away like stones upon Christ's mountainside.