Flower! Flower, why repine? God knows each creature's place; He hides within me when I shine, And your leaves hide His face. And you are near as I to Him, And you reveal as much Of that eternal soundless hymn Man's words may never touch. God sings to man through all my rays That wreathe the brow of night, And walks with me thro' all my ways -- The everlasting light. Flower! Flower, why repine? He chose on lowly earth, And not in heaven where I shine, His Bethlehem and birth. Flower! Flower, I see Him pass Each hour of night and day, Down to an altar and a Mass Go thou! and fade away. Fade away upon His shrine! Thy light is brighter far Than all the light wherewith I shine In heaven, as a star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY by ROBERT AYTON TO AGE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE RIVER-GOD'S SONG by FRANCIS BEAUMONT CONQUERORS by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN NIMROD: 5 by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH IN FREIBURG STATION by RUPERT BROOKE THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN NATURE by JOHN BYROM TO HENRY WRIGHT, OF MOBBERLEY, ON BUYING THE PICTURE OF F. MALEBRANCHE by JOHN BYROM |