Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/Consider
CONSIDER.
CONSIDERThe lilies of the field whose bloom is brief;— We are as they; Like them we fade away. As doth a leaf.
Consider The sparrows of the air of small account: Our God doth view Whether they fall or mount,— He guards us too.
Consider The lilies that do neither spin nor toil, Yet are most fair:—What profits all this care And all this coil?
Consider The birds that have no barn nor harvest- weeks; God gives them food:—Much more our Father seeks To do us good.