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Bounteously the God of nature 

 Strews the face of eartli with flowers, 

 Breathing incense all around them, 

 Fragrant homage to their Maker ; 

 Whispering to human bosoms 

 Holy thoughts of love and kindness, 

 Steadfast hopes about the future, 

 Forming thus an earthly rainbow 

 Full of promise to the weary. 

 To the meek and to the lowly, 

 To the poor and brokenhearted, 

 To the sinner heavy laden. 

 Giving each a firm assurance 

 Of a God who governs all things, 

 Tending them with care parental. 

 For the great Redeemer tells us 

 Solomon in aU his glory 

 Was less glorious than the lily, 

 And thence inculcates the lesson, 

 That if God so clothe the lily 

 In a panoply of beauty 



