Poems (Ford)/Flowers
For works with similar titles, see Flower.
FLOWERS.
Heaven's pale, pure stars from the ether blue
Look down with their twinkling eyes,
And earth's star-flowers of every hue,
With their beautiful eyelids bathed in dew,
Look up to the evening skies,—
Look down with their twinkling eyes,
And earth's star-flowers of every hue,
With their beautiful eyelids bathed in dew,
Look up to the evening skies,—
Look up to the floating lilies fair
In the calm blue lake above,
And their censers, swung by the evening air,
Sweet incense blend with day's vesper prayer
As it floats to the Throne of Love.
In the calm blue lake above,
And their censers, swung by the evening air,
Sweet incense blend with day's vesper prayer
As it floats to the Throne of Love.
We fancy that earth's green vales were first
By wandering angels trod,
And where'er they stepped from the greensward burst
Bright buds of beauty, by dewdrops nursed,
And warmed by the smile of God.
By wandering angels trod,
And where'er they stepped from the greensward burst
Bright buds of beauty, by dewdrops nursed,
And warmed by the smile of God.
And mortal dwellers on earth below
May walk like the angels there,
And beneath their footsteps, where'er they go,
Bright flowers of mercy and hope may blow,
And sweeten life's desert air.
May walk like the angels there,
And beneath their footsteps, where'er they go,
Bright flowers of mercy and hope may blow,
And sweeten life's desert air.
While here around us, like angel smiles,
Earth's beautiful blossoms lie,
May we tend and scatter sweet buds of love
And hope and truth, for the fields above,
Where flowers ne'er fade or die.
Earth's beautiful blossoms lie,
May we tend and scatter sweet buds of love
And hope and truth, for the fields above,
Where flowers ne'er fade or die.