Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 74
;It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. My Lord has need of these flowerets gay, The reaper said, and smiled ;Dear tokens of the eartli are they. Where he was once a child. They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care,And saints, upon their garments white.… … Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, ^ I\^^^ The reaper came that day ; ^& I Twas an angel visited the green ^g earth, S !(8^^ \ And took the flowers awav.
Children's poetry
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