WEEDS.
A weed was in my garden growing;I nurtured it with tender care,It grew to be a flower of beautyWith col’ring rich and fragrance rare.It only needed love, and cultureTo bring out beauty from its heart;It ever had been timid, shrinking,But now it proudly took a partWith other flowers whose birth was higher.Though coming up from out the sodIt gave to all sweet ministration,It was a thought, a part of God.Now if a little weed so humble,A higher place in life could gainBy care, and love, and sweet attention,Why not a human weed attainConditions better, and by struggling,Arise from out its low estate?Butitneeds help and cultivationTo rise above its seeming fate.It needs but pruning, needs but watching.From human weed ’twill rise to beA flower of love, with soul of beauty;It needs though,loveandsympathy.Though but a weed in Life’s bright garden,It is not crushed by th’ heel of Fate.It only needs a new awakeningTo enter Life’s bright golden gate.Then give at least as much attentionTo human weed as garden flower,And thus you will enrich creation,And God will blessings on you shower.
A weed was in my garden growing;I nurtured it with tender care,It grew to be a flower of beautyWith col’ring rich and fragrance rare.It only needed love, and cultureTo bring out beauty from its heart;It ever had been timid, shrinking,But now it proudly took a partWith other flowers whose birth was higher.Though coming up from out the sodIt gave to all sweet ministration,It was a thought, a part of God.Now if a little weed so humble,A higher place in life could gainBy care, and love, and sweet attention,Why not a human weed attainConditions better, and by struggling,Arise from out its low estate?Butitneeds help and cultivationTo rise above its seeming fate.It needs but pruning, needs but watching.From human weed ’twill rise to beA flower of love, with soul of beauty;It needs though,loveandsympathy.Though but a weed in Life’s bright garden,It is not crushed by th’ heel of Fate.It only needs a new awakeningTo enter Life’s bright golden gate.Then give at least as much attentionTo human weed as garden flower,And thus you will enrich creation,And God will blessings on you shower.