"Lo! the lilies of the field, How their leaves instruction yield! Hark to nature's lesson, given By the blessed birds of heaven.

"Say with richer crimson glows, The kingly mantle than the rose; Say are kings more richly dressed, Than the lily's glowing vest!

"Grandmother I forget the next verse," exclaimed Fanny, interruptingherself; "I know it is something about lilies not spinning; but thencomes this verse--