Lyrics
Lilies and Simple Gifts: Consider the Lilies
This is a charming piece, as delightful to listen to today as it was for concert audiences throughout the 1800's. The voice's youthful purity contrasts with the more florid accompaniment.
by Robert Topliff 1840
Text: Matthew 6: 25, 26, 28, 29
Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.