By cool Siloam’s shady fountain
How sweet the lily grows!
How sweet the breath on yonder mountain,
Of Sharon’s dewy rose!
Lo! such the child whose young devotion
The paths of peace has trod;
Whose secret soul’s instinctive motion
Tends upwards to his God!
By cool Siloam’s shady fountain
The lily must decay;
The rose that blooms beneath the mountain
Must shortly fade away.
A little while, the bitter morrow
Of man’s maturer age
Will shake the soul with cankering sorrow,
And passion’s stormy rage!
Oh Thou, whose every year untainted,
In changeless virtue shone!
Preserve the flowers Thy grace hath planted,
And keep them still Thine own!
(Reginald Heber)
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