The Smiling Flowers

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How the smiling flowers

Author: Irvin H. Mack
Tune: [How the smiling flowers]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

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1 How the smiling flowers
Deck earth’s fields and bowers,
Giving joy and gladness,
Hiding ev’ry sadness.
By the streamlet flowing,
Or on wayside growing,
With their heads uplifted,
Glad praise to God they show.

Refrain:
Smiling flowers, growing showing,
Joy and gladness ev’rywhere;
Colors blending, perfume sending,
Beauteous flowers, lovely bowers,
Praise to God they show.

2 See their beauteous smiling
Happy days beguiling,
Dainty colors blending,
Perfumes rich are sending,
With a glad thanksgiving,
For their gracious living,
They are but the tokens
Of Father’s mighty love. [Refrain]

3 What are flowers showing
By their beauteous growing,
AS the earth they brighten,
And its gloom they lighten,
That God’s love is welling,
Unto mankind telling,
There is joy unending,
For all who follow him. [Refrain]

Source: The Service of Praise #188

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Author: Irvin H. Mack

Mack & Lincoln Hall founded the Hall-Mack Company music publishing house (later bought by the Rodeheaver Company). Mack’s works include: Boundless Love (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hall-Mack Company, 1896) The Service of Praise, with Lincoln Hall et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hall-Mack Company, 1900) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/mack_ih.htm Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	How the smiling flowers
Title:	The Smiling Flowers
Author:	Irvin H. Mack
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Smiling flowers, growing showing
Publication Date:	1900
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.