Oh, why for us the blighted bloom!
The blossom that lies withering!
The Master of Life’s changeless loom
Hath wrought for us no changeless thing.
Where grows the rose of fadeless Grace?
Wherethrough the Spirit manifests
The fact of an immortal race,
The dream on which religion rests.
Where buds the lily of our Faith?
That grows for us in unknown wise,
Out of the barren dust of death,
The pregnant bloom of Paradise.
In Heaven! so near that flowers know!
That flowers see how near!–and thus
Reflect the knowledge here below
Of love and life unknown to us.
(Madison Julius Cawein)
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