A Little Child's Monument/"A Milk-white Bloomed Acacia Tree"
"A Milk-White Bloomed Acacia Tree."
A milk-white bloomed acacia tree,
A flowery fair lawn,
Lark-song upsoaring from the lea,
In a rosy dawn;
A little child who, while he sings,
Gives light and joy to all and song, and sunny wings!
The green acacia still blooms,
And all the fairy flowers,
Song thrills the chorister’s light plumes
In blue celestial bowers;
Darkling I wander in the wild,
Looking for my little child
I cannot hear his happy voice,
Bidding all the world be lovely, and rejoice.