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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 29, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 21.

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Rise and Sing

By H. I. Morse-Farnum

H. I. MORSE-FARNUM
SILENTLY the vernal grasses Weave a velvet green, While the signals of the forest Wave their new-made sheen.
Birds and bees and blossoms praising Goodly works of God; Yet the noblest earth-made beauty Shrinks beneath the sod!
Earth, fair earth, with all its glory, All its love and light, Murmurs still pathetic story— Sin, decay, and blight.
Must the clouds of anguish hover, Weeping o’er and o’er, Or the dust its trophies cover, Sleeping evermore?
Silence and the lowly hiding Never answer make; Can the highest Love, abiding, E’er forget, forsake?—
Never! List to Voice from heaven, Breathing from the Word, Soothing souls by sorrow riven, Wafting hopes deferred.
Our dearest Friend will fully do All that sin delayed,— Perennial beauty bloom anew,— Earth an Eden made!
Not a single jewel wanting For the coming King! Pilgrims erst, but now awaiting, “Wake, arise, and sing!”
De Land, Fla.