Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/Consider

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4553568Poems — ConsiderChristina Georgina Rossetti

CONSIDER.
   CONSIDER
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief;—
   We are as they;
Like them we fade away.
   As doth a leaf.

   Consider
The sparrows of the air of small account:
   Our God doth view
Whether they fall or mount,—
   He guards us too.

   Consider
The lilies that do neither spin nor toil,
   Yet are most fair:—
What profits all this care
   And all this coil?

   Consider
The birds that have no barn nor harvest- weeks;
   God gives them food:—
Much more our Father seeks
   To do us good.