: All Round the Year by Brooke Caris Nesbit E Edith Smith H Bellingham Illustrator - Poetry Children's Picture Books

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Illustrator: Hugh Bellingham-Smith

All round the year the changing suns and rains Beat on men's work--to wreck and to decay-- But nature builds more perfectly than they, Her changing unchanged sea resists, remains.

All round the year new flowers spring up to shew How gloriously life is more strong than death; And in our hearts are seeds of love and faith, Ah, sun and showers, be kind, and let them grow.

RESURGAM.

Swift pass the hours, or lengthened by our hearts Uncertain measurement of time, And when we dream the year has just awoke, We wake to find her in her prime.

We sadden with the dying Autumn leaves, Yet falling seeds their promise bring; Through long dark Winter days we only wait A resurrection in the coming Spring.

Within each hour the precious minutes lie Like seeds awaiting Spring's first breath, God's harvest-time shall show us if they bear The flowers of life or death.

Cold is the earth, the flowers below, Fearful of Winter's hand, lie curled; But Spring will come again you know, And glorify the world.

Dark is the night, no stars or moon; But at its blackest night is done; All after hastens to the noon, The triumph of the sun!

And life is short, and love is brief-- Be patient! There will be--they say New life, divine beyond belief, Somewhere, somehow, some day!

MARCH VIOLETS.

This busy, dusty wind that blows Along the cruel streets, Right to the heart of violets goes, And robs them of their sweets. And as along the cruel street The keen wind robs the flowers, So the cold kindness that we meet Blights these poor hearts of ours.

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