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Identifier: birdsflowersorla00howirich (find matches)
Title: Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888 Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile poetry Flowers -- Juvenile poetry
Publisher: London New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE PASSION-FLOWER. I LOVE sweet flowers of every sort,High-spired or trailing low; I love the musky roses red,The lilies white as snow. The aster and the columbine,Sweet-pea and virgin-bower,— I love them all; but most I loveThe good old Passion-flower ! 186 THE PASSION-FLOWER. Yes, yes, the good old Passion-flower! It bringeth to my mindThe young days of the Christian Church, Long ages left behind. I see the blood)- streets of Rome ! The throng—the burning pyre;And Christians stand with clasped hands Amid the raging fire. I hear the women, angel-toned,The men with courage high, Preach their dear Lord amid their pangs,—Forgive their foes—and die. I see, far from the world apart, In desert places dwell.The early Fathers of the Church, In wood or mountain cell. And there the wandering thousands come. By love and pity brought.To liear them tell of Jesus Christ, And the new truths He taught. THE PASSION-FLOWER. 187 I see the fearless Fathers stand Amid the eager throng,Preaching,
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