Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EASTER FLOWERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: Blooming to garland easter
Last Line: To deck our king's highway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection


BLOOMING to garland Easter,
White as the drifted snows,
Are the beautiful vestal lilies,
The myriad-petaled rose,
Carnations with hearts of fire,
And the heather's fragrant spray—
Blooming to garland Easter,
And strew our King's highway.

Late we had gloom and sorrow,
But the word from Heaven forth
Has scattered the clouds before it
Like a trumpet blown from the north;
And east and west and southward
The flowers arise to-day
To garland the blithesome Easter,
And strew the King's highway.

Carry the flowers of Easter
To the darkened house of woe,
With their message of strength and comfort
Let the lilies of Easter go;
Scatter the Easter blossoms
In the little children's way;
Let want and pain and weakness
Be cheered on our Easter day.

For lilac, and rose, and bluebell,
And whatever name they wear,
The spell of the flowers of Easter
Is a spell to banish care;
And blooming to garland Easter,
They will shine in church to-day,
The lovely things that have awakened
To deck our King's highway.





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