Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VIOLIN SONGS: THE FLOWER-ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD


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First Line: Of old, with goodwill from the skies
Last Line: In flowers even read his mind.
Subject(s): Angels; Flowers; God


OF old, with goodwill from the skies—
God's message to them given—
The angels came, a glad surprise,
And went again to heaven.

But now the angels are grown rare,
Needed no more as then;
Far lowlier messengers can bear
God's goodwill unto men.

Each year, the snowdrops' pallid dawn
Breaks from the earth below;
Light spreads, till, from the dark updrawn,
The noontide roses glow.

The snowdrops first—the dawning gray;
Then out the roses burn!
They speak their word, grow dim—away
To holy dust return.

Of oracles were little dearth,
Should heaven continue dumb;
From lowliest corners of the earth
God's messages will come.

In thy face his we see, O Lord,
And are no longer blind;
Need not so much his rarer word,
In flowers even read his mind.





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