"Yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are."
Matthew 6:29
"The fountain of love is the rose, and the lily the sun and the dove."
Heinrich Heine
"And the stately lilies stand fair in the silvery light, like saintly vestals pale in prayer. Their pure breath sanctifies the air, as its fragrance fills the night."
Julia C.R Dorr
Lilies of the field
Mankind is seeded, manured, wetted, pruned; ripe and ready for amoral, criminal pickings
Snared in knifelike thorns and poison ivy; rabidly biting and viciously kicking
As the acrid bitterness and unsightly bile, rise to the top
Absent any security net and with the safety plugs undone, yea; unlocked
Humanity has lost the rational, positive, life-affirming plot
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