When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee." - Meaning and context.">
Reported in James Freeman Clarke, Book of Worship for the Congregation and the Home (1852), p. 431.

Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee." in the context of "Reported in James Freeman Clarke, Book of Worship for the Congregation and the Home (1852), p. 431." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

About Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (14 June 1811 – 1 July 1896) was an American abolitionist and writer, most famous as the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.