<h2><SPAN name="THE_LILIES" id="THE_LILIES" />THE LILIES</h2>
<p><i>Consider the lilies.</i>—Luke 2:27.</p>
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<span>Emblems of Christ our Lord,<br/></span>
<span>Roses and lilies fair,<br/></span>
<span>These flowers in His word,<br/></span>
<span>His glory seem to share.<br/></span></div>
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<span>The lilies of the field,<br/></span>
<span>Sweet teachers of the soul,<br/></span>
<span>Which will their lessons yield<br/></span>
<span>Long as the seasons roll,<br/></span></div>
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<span>They neither toil nor spin,<br/></span>
<span>Exist without a care,<br/></span>
<span>And yet no earthly king can win<br/></span>
<span>A garb so chaste and rare.<br/></span></div>
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<span>Frozen, they burst to life,<br/></span>
<span>To nature's minstrelsy—<br/></span>
<span>A resurrection type<br/></span>
<span>Of immortality.<br/></span></div>
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