Consider the Lilies
by Robert Topliff 1840

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.

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.