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LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE by LUCY A. K. ADEE

First Line: HOW LOVELY IS THE SILENCE OF GREEN, GROWING THINGS
Last Line: ALL PRAISE HIM IN THEIR BEAUTY—KEEPING STILL.
Subject(s): NATURE; SILENCE; WORSHIP;
How lovely is the silence of green, growing things—
Orchard blossoms, apple, plum, and pear,
Branches laden down by fruit they bear,
Fields of everlasting, creeping vine,
Mountain-forest, hemlock, balsam, pine,
Gentian, asters, sweet-fern on the hill,
All praise Him in their beauty—keeping still.



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