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She nor affects 
The public walk, nor gaze of mid-day sun; 
She to no state nor dignity aspires, 
But silent and alone puts on her suit. 
And sheds her lasting perfume, but for which 
We had not known there was a thing so sweet 
Hid in the gloomy shade. 
Barton. 
But beautiful as this association undoubtedly is, 
there is another of yet higher and dearer import,— 
for their name fails not to recall the touching lesson 
given by our Lord, when with some bright “ field- 
lilies” for his text, he preached the Christian duty 
of perfect reliance on the superintending care of the 
Creator, and taught the utter insignificance of worldly 
grandeur, 
Take but the humblest Lily of the field 
And if our pride will to our reason yield, 
lt must by sure comparison be shown 
That in the regai seat great David’s son, 
Arrayed in ail his robes and types of power, 
Shines with less glory than that simple flower. 
Prior. 
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