Flowers nod and smile today

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Flowers nod and smile today

Author: James Rowe
Tune: [Flowers nod and smile today]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Flowers nod and smile today,—
We do, too; we do, too;
They make bright a lonely way;
We do, too.

Refrain:
We do, too! we do, too!
Smile and sing, and so should you!
Pretty flow’rs make glad the hours,
So should you!

2 Pretty song-birds love to sing,—
We do, too; we do, too;
Joy to many hearts they bring;
We do, too. [Refrain]

3 Sunbeams love to gleam and glow,—
We do, too; we do, too;
Precious blessings they bestow;
We do, too. [Refrain]

4 Jesus loves the pure and good,—
We do, too; we do, too;
For the right He always stood;
We do, too. [Refrain]

Source: His Worthy Praise #165

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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