SHORT LIVES AND LONG. 



" Loveliest of lovely things are they 

 On earth, which soonest pass away." 



" Here lies the man was horn, and cried ; 

 Lived sixty years fell sick, and died !" 



OUR chosen emblems of fragility are flowers; and, fixed by 

 the laws of their creation to one spot, where they bud, and 

 bloom, and wither beneath our eye, we have been compelled, 

 almost, to notice their brevity, and are sensible, at times, of 

 the moral odour which exhales from the union of their 

 beauty and fragility. 



