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The Desert Shall Blossom

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 21, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 8.

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The Desert Shall Blossom

By Mrs. Edith B. Goodrich

MRS. EDITH B. GOODRICH
A SCENE of rarest beauty unfolds before my eyes,— The earth made new, fair Eden, our home in paradise; And as its splendor flashes, the radiance of its gleams In glory far excelleth the height of mor- tal dreams.

Chorus

“The solitary places shall be glad; My people, ye shall then no more be sad! The tree of life there grows, The crystal river flows, And the desert bare shall blossom as the rose.”
I see those desert places,—they blossom as the rose,— While over all the landscape a sheen of glory glows. The Saviour leads his people: the dumb there finds his voice; The ears, long deaf, are opened; the once blind doth rejoice.
O vision of the future, when Christ the King of kings Shall dwell among his people with heal- ing in his wings! We soon shall see thy splendor, soon taste the joy that flows, And walk those desert places that blos- som as the rose!
Cottage Grove, Ore.