Long Ago The Lilies Faded

"Consider the lilies, how they grow.

They neither toil nor spin nor weave;

Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory

was not arrayed like one of these."

Luke 12:27

Crown Anemone

The "Lilies of the Field"

Long ago the lilies faded

Which to Jesus seemed so fair;

But the love that bade them blossom

Still is working everywhere.

In the fields, and in the valleys,

By the streams we love so well,

There is greater glory blooming,

Than the tongue of man can tell.

Long ago in sacred silence

Died the accents of His prayer;

Still the souls that seek the Father

Find His presence everywhere.

Let us seek Him, still believing,

He that worketh round us yet,

Clothing lilies in the meadows,

Will His children ne'er forget.

Consider The Lilies

Ron DiCianni

"Long Ago The Lilies Faded"

Words by William G. Tarrant

(1890)

Music by Charlotte A. Barnard

(1868)