Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LILIES AFTER THE RAIN, by CARL W. HISER


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LILIES AFTER THE RAIN, by                    
First Line: White was the snow
Last Line: After the rain.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies


White was the snow,
White as the wing of an angel,
Carpeting meadow and lane;
But soft as a petal of rosebud
The mist in the air turned to rain;
Love and the snow, they had covered
The earth with its darkness and pain.
The snow, how I sorrowed to see it
Washed into muddiness
Slipping away at the call of the rain!
Yet soon it was green where the snowflakes
Had gathered and gone with the rain
And warmth and the smiling of sunbeams
Were wooing the flowers again.

Or was it a heart, I beholding
Looked in on its darkness and pain?
And scars there were on it and crimson
Had colored with many a stain,
Beneath, was the stay of it slipping
That it lifts up its song ne'er again?
Ah! Like snow, He can blot out its crimson.
Yea, whiter than snow.
Still despise not the rain;
For the promise of life blossoms ever from death,
And peace is begotten in pain.
Despise not, despair not;
For He who has vanquished the new tomb of Joseph
Will come yet again --
Come to His garden for lilies
After the rain.





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