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GOD'S DIRECT VOICE
God sometimes speaks through tenderest summer flowers
And sometimes through the waves.
He speaks throught sunlit noons, and moonlit hours:
Through daisies white on graves.
And sometimes through the waves.
He speaks throught sunlit noons, and moonlit hours:
Through daisies white on graves.
He speaks through Nature, and through woman's eyes
And through her gentle heart:
Through red autumnal leaves, through thunderous skies
Wherethrough the levins dart.
And through her gentle heart:
Through red autumnal leaves, through thunderous skies
Wherethrough the levins dart.
Obscure weak human messengers he sends
To souls obscure and weak.
Through bitter enemies, or foolish friends,
The voice divine can speak.
To souls obscure and weak.
Through bitter enemies, or foolish friends,
The voice divine can speak.
But unto those he loves through friend or flower
God speaks not, distantly.
Nay! heart to heart in some most sacred hour:
They know that it is He!
God speaks not, distantly.
Nay! heart to heart in some most sacred hour:
They know that it is He!
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