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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 51.

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OFFERING TO-DAY.

By Susan Birdsall Roberts

BY SUSAN BIRDSALL ROBERTS.
O, do not bring your flowers To strew upon the bier; Keep them for those you flatter With kind attentions here, They will not ease one heart-ache, They will not dry one tear, They will not light one gloomy hour, Too late! too late to cheer.
"Let her alone," said Jesus; The precious ointment pour,— "She waits not for My burial The anointing comes before,"— Uncork the fragrant spikenard, Let perfume fill the air, She comes to bathe the weary feet, Begrimed, but O how fair!
Thus would we bring sweet flowers, And all we have to give; The choicest and the best to share With friends while here they live. Thus would we sweet affections Twine 'round the forms we love, With choicest wreaths and garlands, Our true devotion prove.