Destined for a Fall

 There was a people long ago

     Who had great riches, wealth untold;

     They built a city with a wall,

     A kingdom they thought would never fall.

     How they labored unceasingly

     To lay up treasure increasingly;

     They gave no thought to what lay beyond,

     That their kingdom would someday be gone.

     But one by one the stones came down;

     The city was leveled to the ground,

     No more fortune to be found,

     No one left to wear a crown.

     The mighty kingdom fell at last;

     Its beauty's gone, its pleasure's past;

     All was lost they sought to gain,

     Their lives were wasted, their labor vain.

     You can build a kingdom with a mighty wall,

     But like the kingdom long ago, it is destined for a fall,

     Unless Christ the Lord becomes your King

     And ruler of everything.

—Perry Boardman