Consider The Lilies Of The Field

 

"Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured
 unto Thy lips:  therefore God has blessed Thee forever."
(Psalm 45:2)

The Lilies of the Field
(Red Anemone)
Photograph courtesy/The Times of Israel

Flowers! when the Saviour's calm benignant eye

Fell on your gentle beauty; when from you

That heavenly lesson for all hearts He drew,

Eternal, universal, as the sky:

Then, in the bosom of your purity

A voice He set as in a temple-shrine,

That life's quick travellers ne'er might pass you by,

Unwarn'd of that sweet oracle divine.

And though too oft its low, celestial sound,

By the harsh notes of work-day care is drown'd

And the loud steps of vain, unlistening haste;

Yet the great Ocean hath no tone of power

Mightier to reach the soul in thought's hush'd hour,

Than  yours, meek lilies!-chosen thus and graced.

"Consider The Lilies Of The Field"
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
(1793-1835)
English poetess