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WELCOME, LITTLE ROBIN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 13.

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WELCOME, LITTLE ROBIN

By Stephen V. R. Ford

Welcome, little robin, Messenger of spring! Notes of cheer and gladness To my heart you bring. Frosts in March await you, But you seem to say: “All my songs are fragrant With the breath of May.”
Wakeful little robin! First to greet the light While the world is sleeping In the arms of night; Oft your chirping wakes me, And you seem to say: “Rouse thee from thy slumber; Greet the newborn day!”
Cheerful little robin, From all sorrow free! Not a strain of sadness Mars your melody. Sweet the psalm you teach me, For you seem to say: “Tune thy heart to gladness; Scatter grief away.”
Trustful little robin, Free from anxious care, Since the feathered songsters In God’s bounty share. Listening to your warbling, This you seem to say: “God, who cares for robins, Guards thee day by day.”
— Stephen V. R. Ford, in Christian Advocate.