PIMPERNEL 



(aNAGALLIS* AB.VENS1S.) 



"Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold 

 the sun : 



" But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember 

 the days of darkness." 



Ecclesiailen xi. 7, 8. 



See the scarlet Pimpernel 

 SmiUng in the sunny mom, 



Where it loveth most to dweR 

 'Mid the golden waving com. 



Haply, pass another hour 

 By the corn-field path again, 



"When dark clouds begin to lower, 

 Pregnant with big drops of rain. 



A\Tiere is now this floweret gay 

 "With its bright and beaming eye ? 



Look you wheresoe'er you may, 

 Ne'er a Pimpernel you spy. 



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