Poems (Jordan)/Flowers
For works with similar titles, see Flowers.
FLOWERS
The same sweet message hides in ev'rything:—
In the heart of the glacier flowers are found,
Like the Sun's bright rays set to blossoming
In vases of crystal, on sapphire ground!
In the heart of the glacier flowers are found,
Like the Sun's bright rays set to blossoming
In vases of crystal, on sapphire ground!
If we heed Spring's call to a warmer clime,
There, sentinelled by strong, high-antlered trees,
Earth mothers the promise of Winter-time
And rocks in their cradles flow'r infancies.
There, sentinelled by strong, high-antlered trees,
Earth mothers the promise of Winter-time
And rocks in their cradles flow'r infancies.
Look up after tempest, and see the bow;
(God's eyes with our own look on the blest sign!)
Tis all Heav'n's cloud-flowers set in a row,
Renewing to us the promise divine!
(God's eyes with our own look on the blest sign!)
Tis all Heav'n's cloud-flowers set in a row,
Renewing to us the promise divine!
So, in Afric's dust hides the diamond bright,—
Like a petrified tear-drop of the Sun,
Or a covered light in the breast of Night—
'Tis a flower-bouquet, implanted in stone!
Like a petrified tear-drop of the Sun,
Or a covered light in the breast of Night—
'Tis a flower-bouquet, implanted in stone!
And we hear in Music—whose seven chords
Behind their bars but imprison its life—
But flowers made vocal, in tinted words
S1nging 'neath the sound of all earthly strife.
Behind their bars but imprison its life—
But flowers made vocal, in tinted words
S1nging 'neath the sound of all earthly strife.
Thus earth, sky and sea the same lesson teach;
That the One White Light in All is exprest;
That God, all divine through Immanuel doth reach,
Revealing One Love, Vari-manifest.
That the One White Light in All is exprest;
That God, all divine through Immanuel doth reach,
Revealing One Love, Vari-manifest.