FLORA AND THALIA. 12" 



HEARTSEASE. 



(^Viola tricolor.') 



I USED to love thee, simple flower, 

 To love thee dearly when a boy ; 



For thou didst seem, in childhood's hour. 

 The smiling type of childhood's joy. 



But now thou only mock'st my grief, 

 By waking thoughts of pleasures fled, 



Give me — give me the withered leaf, 

 That falls on Autumn's bosom dead. 



For that ne'er tells of what has been, 

 But warns me what I soon shall be ; 



It looks not back on pleasure's scene, 

 But points unto futurity. 



I love thee not, thou simple flower. 

 For thou art gay, and I am lone ; 



Thy beauty died with childhood's hour — 

 The Heart's-ease from my path is gone. 



LONDOIf MAGAZINE. 



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