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/ Oh, why for us the blighted bloom! / The blossom that lies withering! / The Master of Life's changeless loom / Hath wrought for us no changeless thing.
/ Where grows the rose of fadeless Grace? / Wherethrough the Spirit manifests / The fact of an immortal race, / The dream on which religion rests.
/ Where buds the lily of our Faith? / That grows for us in unknown wise, / Out of the barren dust of death, / The pregnant bloom of Paradise.
/ In Heaven! so near that flowers know! / That flowers see how near! -- and thus / Reflect the knowledge here below / Of love and life unknown to us.