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<h2>SWEET FLOW’RETS OF THE MARTYR BAND</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.” Revelation 14:4</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_d_y_dykes_jb.jpg" alt="John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876)" width="133.333333333333" height="200"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_a_baker_hw.html" target="_blank">Henry Williams Baker</a>, 1875. The metaphor of the murdered children as flowers recalls how St. Augustine described them as “buds, killed by the frost of persecution the moment they showed themselves.”
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Salvete Flores,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a> (1823-1876) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_salvetef.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Sweet flow’rets of the martyr band,<br>
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So early plucked by cruel hand;<br>
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Like rosebuds by a tempest torn,<br>
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As breaks the light of summer morn.</p>
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<p>First victims offered for the Lord,<br>
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Ye little knew your high reward,<br>
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As, at the very altar, gay<br>
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With palms and crowns ye seemed to play.</p>
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<p>Ah! what availed King Herod’s wrath?<br>
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He could not stay your Savior’s path;<br>
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The Child he sought alone went free;<br>
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That Child is King eternally.</p>
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<p>O Lord, the virgin born, to Thee<br>
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Praise, honor, might and glory be,<br>
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Whom with the Father we adore<br>
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And Holy Ghost forevermore.</p>
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