Eve's Flowers
Eve must have wept to leave her flowers, And plucked some roots to tell Of Eden's happy, sinless bowers, Where she in bliss did dwell. Roses and lilies, pansies gay, Violets with azure eyes, Her favorites must have been, for they Seem born in paradise. And when they drooped, did she not sigh And kiss their petals fair, Thinking, "Alas, ye too must die And in our sorrow share"? And then perhaps unto her soul This answer sweet was given, "Like you we fade and perish here; For you we'll bloom in heaven." Roses and lilies are the type Of him who from above, The lamb of God, gave up his life, A sacrifice of love. He was her hope in those sad hours Of blight and sure decay; The sin that drove her from her flowers His blood could wash away.
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"Eve must have wept to leave her flowers,..."
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