154 AMARANTH. 



From swift decay ! 

 Beauty and youth are dust to dust allied, 

 And time returns its tribute to the grave ! 



Palo, unobtrusive tenant of the field ! 

 Thy fair, unsullied form shall still remain, 

 'Mid summer's heat and autumn's chill career, 



And winter's reign ; 

 E'en the first honours of the floral year 

 To thee alone shall gay Narcissus yield. 



Fair emblem art thou of the pious breast ! 

 Like thee, unlading flower, shall virtue bloom, 

 When youth and all its bustling pride repose 



Deep in the tomb ! 

 When beauty's cheek shall wither like the Rose, 

 And beauty's sparkling eye shall be at rest! 



