Classic Poem

MORNING PRAYER .

Welcome, earliest Eastern ray;
Welcome, golden dawn of day;
Welcome, cloudless sun, to say,
Alleluia, Christ is risen.

Welcome, warblers of the spring;
Welcome, every glancing wing,
Welcome, as ye soar and sing,
Alleluia, Christ is risen.

Welcome, wreaths of leaves and flowers
Gather'd from earth's choicest bowers;
Bloom that breathes a few brief hours,
Alleluia, Christ is risen.

Earthly suns must sink to rest;
Birds must seek their evening nest;
Flowers must droop when most caress'd:
Alleluia, Christ is risen.

He is risen, no more to die:
Songs shall fill eternity:
Sharon's Rose shall bloom for aye:
Alleluia, Christ is risen.