Beside My Cottage Door It Grows
Taken from Streams in the Desert
Author Unknown
Beside my cottage door it grows,
The loveliest, daintiest flower that blows,
A sweetbriar rose.At dewy morn or twilight’s close,
The rarest perfume from it flows,
This strange wild rose.But when the rain-drops on it beat,
Ah, then, its odors grow more sweet,
About my feet.Ofttimes with loving tenderness,
Its soft green leaves I gently press,
In sweet caress.A still more wondrous fragrance flows
The more my fingers close
And crush the rose.Dear Lord, oh, let my life be so
Its perfume when tempests blow,
The sweeter flow.And should it be Thy blessed will,
With crushing grief my soul to fill,
Press harder still.And while its dying fragrance flows
I’ll whisper low, “He loves and knows
His crushed briar rose.”
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Sandy
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