Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: There is a flower a beauteous one
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Hymn Number: 544
Page Number: 279, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHERE is a flower, a beauteous one
That blossoms on my path;
No need of dew or daily sun,
Or falling shower it hath,
It blossoms as brightly in the storm,
As in the cloudless day;
And rears unharm'd its humble form,
While other fade away.
That plant is faith, its holy leaves
Reviving odors shed
Upon the lowly place of grief,
Or mansion of the dead.
God is its Sun, it living light,
In happy hours he lends,
And silently in sorrow's night
Religious dew descends.
Plant of my soul be fading things,
By other hands carest;
But through life's weary wanderings,
I'll clasp thee to my breast;
And when the icy powers shall chill
The fountain of my breath,
Thy loveliness shall cheer me still,
E'en in the hour of death.