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NATURE AND REVELATION

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 13, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 20

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NATURE AND REVELATION.

By L. D. Santee

BY L. D. SANTEE.
O FLOWERS of spring, whose waves of odorous sweetness The breezes waft across the dreamy hills, How will you bloom in summer's calm completeness, And how the balmy air with fragrance fill!
Sweet summer birds their notes of joy are singing, Until the lengthened shadows close the day, When through the skies, like golden censers swinging, The starry host move on in long array.
All day the sun, his nectared wine distilling, To fall mid shades of night in pearly dew, Raising the drooping grass, the flower-cups filling, To blossom out in beauty yet more new.
O'er all the earth is spread the emerald grasses, On nature's face the sun's broad glory lies, O'er flowery meads the wavering shadow passes From cloud-ships sailing through the azure skies.
But not from nature, though the rose she flushes, Not from the sun, though bright his radiance be, Not from the mighty deep, though fountain gushes And restless rivers murmur to the sea,
Comes there, replying to the soul's sad yearnings, A revelation of that heavenly land Where full fruition quenches all heart-burnings, Where round the throne angelic harpers stand.
Oh, who shall guide us to the pearly portals, That far-off land of mystery and dream, That home prepared for all the saints immortal, Where streets are golden and the white robes gleam?
But oh, there is a light that shines to Heaven, A voice that calls us with a pleading cry; It tells of peace on earth, of man forgiven, It is the voice of Christ, of Calvary.
It tells, the King of kings, from Heaven descended, Shall wake the dead with trumpet's awful sound; It tells of saints, their pathway upward tending, Beyond where planets roll in deeps profound.
Glory to God, the source of our salvation, Thanks to his name for revelation's light. Oh, may we join with all his righteous nation, And dwell forever with the saints in light.