Consider the Lilies of the Field

Christina Rossetti

1830 to 1894

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Yet take no heed
The lilies say: Behold how we
Let but my scarlet head appear
Which their own leaves have made:
Of humble lessons we would read.
I am most fair;
To nourish one small seed.
Yet juice of subtle virtue lies
The rain and sunshine too,
The violets whisper from the shade
Within my cup of curious dyes.
The merest grass
Preach without words of purity.
Lichen and moss and sturdy weed,
The poppy saith amid the corn:
The rose saith in the dewy morn,
And I am held in scorn;
Men scent our fragrance on the air,
Tell of His love who sends the dew,
Upon a thorn.
Along the roadside where we pass,
Yet all my loveliness is born
Flowers preach to us if we will hear:--
But not alone the fairest flowers: