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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 33.

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THE ROSE OF SHARON

By L. M. Burgess

O, ROSE of Sharon, bloom for me! Thy beauties let these dull eyes see! The thorns that pierced, on stems of thine Ne'er grew; alas! those thorns were mine! Mine, when in sins my hand would rise To pierce the King of earth and skies— To pierce that heart so kind and true, That tho' my guilty soul it knew, Yet gladly died that I might be, Thro' that dark hour, from sin made free.
Sweet Rose of Sharon! Christ divine! O, quickly come and make me thine! Earth only charms us to destroy, In thee alone is peace and joy. Come in the clouds of Heaven and claim Those who are trusting in thy name, Who thine appearing wait, and watch The faintest gleam of dawn to catch.
O, Rose of Sharon, haste and come To fill the earth with light and bloom!, One moment clasped to thy pure breast Would be eternal joy and rest! One look from those dear eyes would be Sure cure for all earth's misery. Sweet Rose of Sharon! haste and give That look that bids the dying live! Oh, that my longing, listening ear May soon his coming footsteps hear! And soon my raptured vision see The Rose of Sharon bloom for me! Austin, Ill. —L. M. Burgess.