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First Line: Where is the tree the prophet threw
Last Line: From that blessed healing tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Fountains


WHERE is the tree the prophet threw
Into the bitter wave?
Left it no scion where it grew,
The thirsting soul to save?

Hath nature lost the hidden power
Its precious foliage shed?
Is there no distant Eastern bower
With such sweet leaves o'erspread?

Nay, wherefore ask? -- since gifts are ours
Which yet may well imbue
Earth's many troubled founts with showers
Of heaven's own balmy dew.

Oh! mingled with the cup of grief
Let faith's deep spirit be;
And every prayer shall win a leaf
From that blessed healing tree!





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