Easter's Brightness

A little girl smells the Easter flowers on an antique postcard.

EASTER'S BRIGHTNESS
'Most everybody has new clothes
Or hats or something fine
At Easter, and I think sometimes
The sun just tries to shine

A little brighter so the flowers
Will hurry up and bloom
To show the world how Christ came out
From that dark, dismal tomb.

       Did you know that eggs, chrysalis and kernels of grain were all familiar symbols at Easter long ago? With the egg and chrysalis we are most familiar, but in olden times grains of kernels were also used. In England a tiny cross, together with grains of barley and wheat were once found in the center block of oaken mantel pieces. The custom had long been forgotten when it was recalled by this discovery of the three emblems in the mantel of the room in which Shakespeare was born. A Commissioner in charge of the restoration of this house, took from it a block of old wood for a souvenir on behalf of a friend who was a Shakespearean scholar. This scholar in turn, tried to split the wood so as to share the gift with another friend and discovered it to be hollow. Inside, it contained a cross, three grains of barley and a piece of tow (uncleansed wool). To his honor, be it said, the scholar restored the relic to the house at Stratford on Avon, where it is hopefully still on exhibition.

 At church, all little girls and boys
Sing hymns that tell of Easter joys.

Easter singing coloring page from 1950s

 

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