Historical & Legendary Ballads & Songs By Walter Thornbury. Illustrated by J. Whistler, F. Walker, John Tenniel, J. D. Watson, W. Small, F. Sandys, G. J. Pinwell, T. Morten, M. J. Lawless, and many others |
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Trust in God.
Nature hath trust in God: from sheltering sheathNo bud hath broken; scarce the tufted larch
Its livelier green assumes; nor yet beneath
Blossoms the flower that woke at shout of March:
Yet every bird its varied nest is rearing,
Amid dark sprays, scarce hidden, and appearing
Bare to the searching wind and piercing rain.
Unreasoning things that, trustful, ne'er refrain
To build, nor yet to greet the reddening morn;
They see each bud hath got its guardian thorn,
And almond flowers deck the leafless bough;
Bright kingcups strew with lavish gold the earth,
Knowing that soon we must, with joyful brow,
Hear the first cuckoo's monotone of mirth.
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