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THE EASTER LILY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 26, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 17.

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THE EASTER LILY.

By Maidie E. Barnitz

BY MAIDIE E. BARNITZ.
O LILY, golden-hearted, O flower born of light, The sign of hope supernal, A splendor waxen white.
The eyes of earth responsive, Turn to that light on high, The sign of life transfigured, And hope that can not die.
Ah, not in the clear bright heavens, But deep in the dark alone, No life or light beside it, That crown of light was grown.
Its faith, forever feeling On to the larger light, Has kept it reaching up to The miracle out of sight.
On, on, through all opposing, The dark, the mire, the clay, To find its fuller being, Within the clearer day.
So, not for its rarer radiance, We claim that symbol white, But the faith which knew its portion Was one with the endless light.
Berkeley, Cal.