The Blooming of the Rose Lyrics & Tabs by The Spangle Maker
The Blooming of the Rose
guitar chords lyrics
There is a man, a stranger here
Another race, another sort
A different faith, a foreign world
And yet I feel I know his heart
No pen can capture what he is
No fortune equal to his worth
For nothing but the hand of God
Can tether angels to the earth
And his passions are my own—
And our burdens will be lighter if we help each other carry them
There is someone else like me—
I can’t touch him but I look at him and feel the world is good again
I never knew another place
My haven is a field of war
But kindness flows from gentle hearts
I never knew another place
My haven is a field of war
But kindness flows from gentle hearts
And peace may be provided for
They say there is a book of life
I’m free to write each future page
I cannot change the planet’s turn
I’ll turn its motion into change
From the smoky, shattered ground
Ever-shifting like the desert, as oppressive as an airless tomb
Clears a vision of my life
As the mother of his children, as the matron of a happy home
I see a garden in the waste
Although I never claimed to be a seer
Each moment brings a blessed chance
For strength to rend the shroud of fear
For flowers to grow amid the thorns
For God is working, even here
There is more to life than love—
But the purest love is steady as the universe from age to age
There is more to love than life—
And earth’s troubled beauty is as much a threshold as it is a cage
