Gifts for You and Me

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The clover blossoms sweet

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [The clover blossoms sweet]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 The clover blossoms sweet,
Are blooming at our feet,
Each tiny cup is lifted up
With perfume sweet to greet.
The dandelions gay
Like little ones at play
Are here and there and everywhere
The live-long summer day.

Refrain:
They come from God above
Sweet gifts for you and me.

2 The daisies seem to be,
Fair stars for you and me,
So free and bright, so pure and white,
These dear day-stars we see.
The buttercups of gold
So many sunbeams hold
They fill the hours with golden show’rs,
Their wealth is never told. [Refrain]

3 O, summer blossoms dear,
We’re bending very near.
Your message sweet, to us repeat
Your words we’ll try to hear.
The blossoms seem to say,
All in their own sweet way,
From God above, whose name is Love,
We come to you today. [Refrain]

Source: Uplifted Voices: a 20th century hymn book for sunday-schools and devotional meetings #157

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Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	The clover blossoms sweet
Title:	Gifts for You and Me
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	They come from God above
Copyright:	Public Domain