The morning flowers display their sweets

The morning flowers display their sweets. Samuel Wesley (II)* (1691-1739). First published in Miscellaneous Poems, published by several hands (1726), one of a series published by David Lewis. It was entitled ‘On the 6th and 8th Verses of the 40th Chapter of Isaiah, occasioned by the Death of a Young Lady’. The verses from Isaiah are as follows: The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:... The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. The hymn first summarises these verses, and then applies them to the human condition: The Morning Flow’rs display their Sweets,...

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