First Line: THE YEARS ARE FLOWERS AND BLOOM WITHIN Last Line: AND MAKE THEM ROSE-LIKE IN HIS NAME. Subject(s): FLOWERS; GARDENS & GARDENING; GOD; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
The years are flowers and bloom within Eternity's wide garden; The rose for joy, the thorn for sin, The gardener, God, to pardon All wilding growths, to prune, reclaim, And make them rose-like in His name.