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A SONG OF LIFE

From the April 1901 issue of The Christian Science Journal


O WAKING earth, thy story tell!
O bear to men thy song of joy!
Let thy full life be death's sure knell;
Spread trust and peace without alloy.
To all who sit within the gloom,
To all who linger by the tomb,
Shed thou upon them Life's full bloom;
Shout immortality.

O singing bird, thy message bear!
O sing to all thy story sweet!
Let thy glad flights from regions fair,
Be harbingers of Love's swift feet
To all who silent, suffer wrong;
To all who know no Easter dawn;
Sing thou to them of endless morn;
Chant immortality.

O shining stars, shed glory bright!
O send to earth a fulier praise!
Let thy infinitude of light
Be as the notes the seraphs raise,
To hearts that bend beneath life's cross,
To hopes that suffer daily loss,
Shed thy pure rays, that know no dross,
Chant immortality.

O earth that blooms and birds that sing!
O stars that shine when all is dark!
In type and symbol ye do bring
The Life Divine, and bid us hark,
That we may catch the chant sublime
And rising pass the bounds of time;
So shall we win the goal divine,
Our immortality.

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