30 GARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 



And together, with fragrant sigh to close 

 Our perfumed blossoms in calm repose. 



But now, with none to respond our sigh, 

 In a foreign home we must droop and die ; 

 The bonds of kindred we once have known, 

 And how can we live in the world alone '? 



Oh, lady, list to the voice of mirth. 

 By childhood wakened around thy hearth. 

 And think how lonely thy heart would pine. 

 Should fortune the ties of affection untwine. 



E'en now, in the midst of that circle blest, 

 There are mournful thoughts in thine aching breast, 

 And how wouldst thou weep, if, bereft of all. 

 Thou shouldst sit alone in thy empty hall ! 



THE CONSUMPTIVE. 



MRS. EMMA C. EMBURY. 



The intense desire for fruits and flowers which is generally express- 

 ed by the victims of consumption, long after every other taste has 

 departed, was exemplified in the case of a friend who died while 

 holding in his hand a tulip. 



Bring flowers — fresh flowers — the fairest spring can 



yield. 

 The poetry of earth, o'er every field, 



