Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand,
And on the sun's noon-glory gaze;
With eye like his, thy lids expand,
And fringe their disk with golden rays:
Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there,
Light is thy element, thy dwelling air,
Thy prospect heaven.
So would mine eagle-soul descry,
Beyond the path where planets run,
The light of immortality.
The splendour of creation's sun;
Though sprung from the earth
and hast'ning to the tomb
In hope a flower of paradise to bloom,
I took to heaven.
"The Sunflower Poem"
James Montgomery
(1771-1854)
Scottish hymn writer and poet
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