Closed Eyes Can't See White Roses We are not living in eternity so give them the flowers now!

Closed eyes can't see the white roses,
Cold hands can't hold them, you know,
Breath that is stilled can not gather
The odors that sweet from them blow
Death, with a peace beyond dreaming,
Its children of earth doth endow;
Life is the time we can help them,
So give them the flowers now!

Here are the struggles and striving,
Here are the cares and the tears;
Now is the time to be smoothing
The frowns and the furrows and fear,
What to closed eyes are kind sayings?
What to hushed heart is deep vow?
Naught can avail after parting,
So give them the flowers now!

Just a kind word or a greeting;
Just a warm grasp or a smile,
There are the flowers that will lighten
The burdens for many a mile.
After the journey is over
What is the use of them; how
Can they carry them who must be carried?
O, give them the flowers now!

Blooms from the happy heart's garden
Plucked in the spirit of love;
Blooms that are eartlhy reflections
Of flowers that blossom above.
Words cannot tell what a measure
Of blessing such gifts will allow
To dwell in the lives of many,
So give them the flowers now!
- Leigh M. Hodges

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe


The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller


Begin doing what you want to do now.
We are not living in eternity. We have
only this moment, sparkling like a star
in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie Beyon Ray

If your heart is a volcano,
how shall you expect
flowers to bloom?
- Kahlil Gibran

Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
- Heinrich Heine

The Earth Laughs in Flowers
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you pass by the color purple
in a field and don't notice it,
God gets real pissed off.
- Alice Walker

One of the most attractive things about
the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
- Henry David Thoreau