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" 'Tis meet they spend their sweet lives there. 



*' They're dear to all, the young and gay, 



" The aged, in their wintry day, 



" The happy, in their blissful mood, 



*^ The sorrowing, w hen their griefs intrude { 



" Oh, let these beauteous products, then, 



" Bloom ever round the haunts of men ; 



*' Let low ly cot and lordly hall 



'* A.nd wide domain and garden small 



" Receive the gentle guests ; and they, 



" Henceforth shall rule with loftier sway ; 



" For 1 am homeless now, my bower 



*' Is desolate, and I nmst dwell 



*' By turns ^^ith every beauteous flower 



" That blooms around — a mystic spell, 



" A high and holy charm shall be 



** Their recompense who shelter me ; 



" Round each and all this gift shall live 



*' E'en after they have ceas'd to give 



*•' The wandering Fay a home. 



" But ever, in fond memory 



" Of my own chosen flowers, 



" JRoses of every hue shall own 



*^ A spell of deeper powders ; 



*' The charm I give to them shall cast 



*' Its magic over every heart 



" And hold sweet influence there, and last 



** 'Til life itself depart ; 



*' And holy spirits, when they grieve 



'* O'er those who stray from virtue's track, 



" Shall bless the spells that Roses weave 



" And choose them as their messenger^i 



"To call the wandereri? back." 



