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For Spring, and flowers of Spring, Blossoms and what they bring, Be our thanks given; Thanks for the maiden’s bloom, For the sad prison’s gloom; And for the sadder tomb, E’en as for heaven! Great God thy will be done, When the soul’s rivers run Down the worn cheeks, Done when the righteous bleed, When the wrong’d vainly plead, Done in the mended deed, When the heart breaks. Lo! how the dutiful Snows clothe in beautiful Life, the dead earth! Lo! bow the clouds distil Riches o’er vale and hill, While the storm’s evil will Dies in its birth! Bless’d is the unpeopled down, Bless’d is the crowded town, Where the tir’d groan: Pain but appears to be; What are man’s fears to Thee, God! if all tears shall be Gems on Thy throne.
For Spring, and flowers of Spring, Blossoms and what they bring, Be our thanks given; Thanks for the maiden’s bloom, For the sad prison’s gloom; And for the sadder tomb, E’en as for heaven! Great God thy will be done, When the soul’s rivers run Down the worn cheeks, Done when the righteous bleed, When the wrong’d vainly plead, Done in the mended deed, When the heart breaks. Lo! how the dutiful Snows clothe in beautiful Life, the dead earth! Lo! bow the clouds distil Riches o’er vale and hill, While the storm’s evil will Dies in its birth! Bless’d is the unpeopled down, Bless’d is the crowded town, Where the tir’d groan: Pain but appears to be; What are man’s fears to Thee, God! if all tears shall be Gems on Thy throne.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 591 · printed citation: E. Elliot · subject: TEARS
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