Elizabeth Oakes Smith - A Summer Morning Picture lyrics

The Sabbath morning from the night awoke All sunshine crowned: rough men disdaining toil Had cleared their brows from work-day's hardening moil And by the fountain left the cove'd yoke. Through morning-glory and the hollyhock, And rich nasturtium, shading with their coil The cottage window, and the heated soil, Aslant the white board floor the sunshine broke, And left a flowery tracery in the sheen. This inward gleam the children newly kempt, And genial matron, calm from work-day ways, Who sits with stately grace her flock between And sings a Sabbath hymm, meseems, exempt Like these from strife, Seraphim Legions join the praise.