# There Once Was an Oyster

Language: en  
Author: \~Author unknown  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, May/June 2013, Number 3  
Source pages: 9  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/there-once-was-an-oyster/>
Original PDF: 2013\-05\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, May/June 2013](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2013-05/>)

**There once was an oyster**  
 Whose story I tell,  
 Who found that some sand  
 Had got into his shell\.

It was only a grain,  
 But it gave him great pain\.  
 For oysters have feelings  
 Although they’re so plain\.

Now, did he berate  
 The harsh workings of fate  
 That had brought him  
 To such a deplorable state?

Did he curse at the government,  
 Cry for election,  
 And claim that the sea should  
 Have given him protection?

“No,” he said to himself  
 As he lay on a shell,  
 Since I cannot remove it,  
 I shall try to improve it\.

Now the years have rolled around,  
 As the years always do,  
 And he came to his ultimate  
 Destiny—stew\.

And the small grain of sand  
 That had bothered him so  
 Was a beautiful pearl  
 All richly aglow\.

Now the tale has a moral,  
 For isn’t it grand  
 What an oyster can do  
 With a morsel of sand?

What couldn’t we do  
 If we’d only begin  
 With some of the things  
 That get under our skin\.

\~Author unknown