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Hymn 249: The sun clear-shining after showers
HYMN CCXLIX.
The sun clear-shining after showers May his own image view, Reflected from a thousand flowers In countless drops of dew.
If then a freshening breeze up-springs, Above, around, beneath, Like heavenward incense on its wings, Their mingled odours breathe.
So! where the Sun of His cheering radiance sheds, Where gracious rains have fall'n to bless The Church's garden-beds.
Christ's ransom'd tribes before him stand, With His own glory bright; Plants of his heavenly Father's hand And children of the light.
Then should the spirit from above A gale of Eden's blow, As from a Paradise of love, How sweet their spices flow!
To-day, while thousands meet as one In many a holy place, May He who is of all the Sun, In each his image trace.