He included many items about Hemp- 

 stead, Long Island, a spot to which 

 he was particularly attached, and the 

 following is one of them: — 



" May you should see, the Woods 

 and Fields so curiously bedeckt with 

 Roses and an innumerable multitude 

 of delightful Flowers, not only pleas- 

 ing to the eye but smell 



" That you may behold Nature con- 

 tending with Art and striving to equal 

 if not excel many gardens in England." 



Who has not gathered with delight 

 the sweet wild rose blossoming in the 

 fields, arosy cousin of that pale blossom 

 which shines in English hedgerows? 

 From Georgia come the praises of the 

 sweet white blooms of the Cherokee 

 rose. 



TO A CHEROKEE ROSE. 



" Thy one white leaf is open to the sky, 

 And o'er thy heart swift lights and shadows pass, — 

 The wooing winds seem loath to wander by, 

 Jealous of sunshine and the summer grass. 



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