<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Easter Lily</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little child, as winter turned to spring,<br> Tended a lily-plant with patient care,<br>Thinking, when she should see it blossoming,<br> To set it on the chancel-step; that there,<br>When Easter dawned on Lent, the spotless thing<br>Might on the feast-day be her offering,<br> Lifting its own white face to One more fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, as the plant grew upward day by day,<br> Raising itself from earth towards the sky,<br>So seemed the child from earth to draw away,<br> The while she feared to see the lily die;<br>Unthinking that, ere broke the Easter ray,<br>She might her own white soul before Him lay<br> For Whom she sought the flower to sanctify.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time passed. The lily bloomed not; and the night<br> Before the feast had come. And so the child<br>Sent to the church the cherished plant, despite<br> ’T was but an unblown bud; and—reconciled<br>That on the altar-step, midst flowers white,<br>Her poor green stalk watched out the silent flight<br> Of hours until the morn—contented smiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> • • • • • • • •</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair broke the dawn upon the altar’s hem<br> Of lilies, breathing Easter greeting sweet;<br>But, with the night that so perfected them,<br> The child’s own spirit fled, the Light to meet<br>Beyond the heaven’s roseate diadem;<br>And, with the morning, bloomed upon the stem<br> The fair, white soul her own had longed to greet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Guy+Wetmore+Carryl">Guy Wetmore Carryl</a> from <i>The Garden of Years and Other Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117253" data-title="The Easter Lily de Guy Wetmore Carryl" data-description="A little child, as winter turned to spring,/ Tended a lily-plant with patient care,/Thinking, when she should see it blossoming,/ To set it on the chancel-step; that there,/When Easter dawned on Lent, the spotless thing/Might on the feast-day be h..."></div> </div> </div>

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