“By cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the lily grows!”
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
"First Sunday After Epiphany", no. 2 (1812).
Hymns
“Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew
Shut in a lily's golden core.”
Agnes, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 458.
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