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Poems of home and country

Also, Sacred and Miscellaneous Verse

Smith, Samuel Francis (1808-1895)

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Come to the festal day,
Cheerfully welcomed, come!
Come join our songs; come share the joy
That crowns our school and home!

Here have our hearts received
Treasures of holy truth,—
God's living words,—the helps of age,
The loving guides of youth.

Come, for the rolling year,
With bursting buds and flowers,
Summons the sower to his toils,
And gladdens us in ours!

God's blessing cheers each task:
No work for God is vain:
His is alike the beaming sun,
And His the gentle rain.

Then to our festal day
And cheerful greetings, come!
Come join our songs; come share the joy
That crowns our school and home!