"He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds,
a divinely implanted sense of purpose working through
the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy,
yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from
the beginning to the end."
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Lo, the earth is risen again
From the winter's bond and pain!
Bring we leaf and flower and spray
To adorn our holiday!
Once again the word comes true,
Lo, He maketh all things new!
Now the dark, cold days are o'er,
Light and gladness are before.
How our hearts leap with spring!
How our spirits soar and sing!
Light is victor over gloom,
Life triumphant o'er the tomb.
Change, then, mourning into praise,
And, for dirges, anthems raise!
All our fears and griefs shall be
Lost in immortality.
"Lo, The Earth Is Risen Again"
Samuel Longfellow
(1819-1892)
New England clergyman, hymn writer,
and younger brother of American poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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