The Easter Lily

HE IS RISEN!   HE IS RISEN INDEED!

(Continued from Easter Story Book - author unknown)

"On Sunday morning, His friend Mary Magdalen, and two other women went to the tomb.  The big stone guarding the door of the tomb had been rolled away.  Jesus was not there.  Two angels greeted the women and told them that Jesus was alive and had risen."   John 20

The Easter Lily

"Within the rich man's garden

Full any a flower was seen,

With crowns of gold and crimson

On cups of emerald green.

They brought the dead King hither

And every flower in bloom

Bowed down its head in sorrow

About the Saviour's tomb.

But see! The white winged angels

Have rolled the stone away,

And 'mid the flowers only

The white grave cerements lay.

Next day they sought to find them,

Lo! rising where they fell

Like the hand of an angel

Waved there - a lily's bell.

So pure, so white, so spotless,

It pointed in the air,

As if to tell newcomers

That He had risen there.

Born of His white robes fallen

Like white leaves folded up,

They found a sceptre golden and small

Within each fragrant cup.

And so among the blossoms

Amidst the rich man's bowers,

Was born the Easter lily,

The angel of the flowers.