Now, nature, from the fertile mold Your store of treasure vast unfold, And from your warm and pulsing heart New life once more to earth impart; O'er hill and vale and meadow wide, On mountain lone, by ebbing tide Unfold the buds of promise sweet The waiting world again to greet, And resurrect the flowers fair A perfumed incense on the air, And this, an humble tribute bring, Earth's offering to her Easter King. Let nature's minstrelsy awake! The gentle wind love's message take In music's notes of sweetest strain Till flowing brooks catch the refrain, And murm'ring gently to the sea Repeat the song from lea to lea. Then wakes the ocean's mighty soul And o'er its billows anthems roll. Let woodland carolers be heard, And chant again the joyous word, From cliff to cliff Te Deums ring Hosannah to the Saviour King! Oh lives with these great blessings fraught, A gift of love divinely bought, To Him who hath our ransom paid, The hope of joy eternal made, Let grateful hearts their homage pay And give Him praise from day to day Till round the world we will proclaim The glories of the Saviour's name, And in an endless anthem sing, He lives, our resurrected King! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE TO FEAR by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) A CONSERVATIVE by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY WHITEHAVEN HARBOUR by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN THE OMEN by JANIE ELLEN LUELLING BYRNES PSALM XLII by NATHANIEL COTTON |