WINTER IS PAST by Bryant

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 19, 1877

“WINTER IS PAST.”

By Bryant

Winter is past—the little bee resumes Her share of sun and shade, and o’er the lea Hums her first hymnings to the flowers’ perfumes, And wakes a sense of gratefulness in me: The little daisy keeps its wonted place; Ere March by April gets disarmed of snow, A look of joy opes on its smiling face, Turned to that Power that suffers it to blow. Ah, pleasant time! yet, pleasing as you be, One still more pleasing, Hope reserves for me, Where suns unsetting one long summer shine, Flowers endless bloom, where winter ne’er destroys. Oh! may the good man’s righteous end be mine, That I may witness these unfading joys. —Bryant.