The Voices Of The Flowers

11 ynu lie wilh ynur earto the soft green earth, Vyhen the rain and the sunshine lal!, Voucan hev the Hemen in their n-iy glad inirth To étch ether whisppr and cal!. Kor IiushM, likc :in infjnt in sleep the) u In their muist fiool cells lclo . Awenry of hearing the wimfl llcak sih. And the falling of the nov. But when spring comes down to t!ie carth, and her f eet Send a llirill through woodland and plain, And the clouda weep tcars that are soit and twrQtt, Hut wlmt wt miscail the ruin, Tbcn they waken up witii a lijfht in their look, And in luw, swett In-pers they rrv ' Sisters, a raurmur is lu-urd n thé brook, And sunshine s sen in the sky. It U time we should luirst tlirough the youn mei-ii earth, As the stars throujfh the ]ieat-ns liv niM That the yomin and tlie old may rrtotcv in oitr birth. And wc in tM talm, IWMt lihl." TJien one said : "Sisters, wlierc sliall we tnw ? 1 shall grow by the lide of the stream. ! l.iv long 1 will blossom and blow, TiU Uk .lew luid tne up in a drein." "And 1," said another, will bloom by tlie way Wlicre the children go in n band ; lhcy w Hl slop tot 'A moment their gladsouie l.iy And toucli my Ups with tlieir hand." "I will peen from the long rich grass," said one, "Wlicn the meadows bow to the uttul. And will catch like dew-dnips the fairy tone Ol the music it leave behind." "And I," said one, "n somt garden rare, Where my fairer sisters abide: And it may be that I may be twined ín the liair Of the niaid as urn blooms into bride." I i in Hirall - 1 ' " i have said Í I i all ¦ dead. ¦¦ x' it 1 ! . . . . ¦ A ! will ..-.ir: .:. (hei silrnt j(ode Imh tbc rrmnd mnmetion tocrown iheii tr u-t in the ioe aiul the promtse ot God." I hm thr tl. . r; and f yon laWoen tba rain and tbc sunshine fall '(ui will hear them questiwQ and makt reply li our heai l ih .ill