An Easter Flower Gift


 


An Easter Flower Gift
 
DEAREST bloom the seasons know,
Flowers of the Resurrection blow,
  Our hope and faith restore;
And through the bitterness of death
And loss and sorrow, breathe a breath        5
  Of life forevermore!
 
The thought of Love Immortal blends
With fond remembrances of friends;
  In you, O sacred flowers,
By human love made doubly sweet,        10
The heavenly and the earthly meet,
  The heart of Christ and ours!

-John Greenleaf Whittier



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