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The Reliquary

By Bernard and Lucy Barton. With A Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849)

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A COMPARISON.

Many a flower, by man unseen,
Gladdens lone recesses;
Many a nameless brook makes green
Haunts its beauty blesses.
Many a scatter'd seed on earth
Brings forth fruit where needed;
Such the humble Christian's worth.
By the world unheeded.
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