GARDENS, WREATHS, & c . 
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SPRING FLOWERS. 
COWPER. 
Laburnum, rich 
In streaming gold ; syringa, iv’ry pure ; 
The scentless and the scented rose ; this red. 
And of an humbler growth, the other* tall, 
And throwing up into the darkest gloom 
Of neighb’ring cypress, or more sable yew, 
Iler silver globes, light as the foamy surf, 
That the wind severs from the broken wave ; 
The lilac, various in array, now white. 
Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now 
set 
With purple spikes pyramidal, as if 
Studious of ornament, yet unresolv’d 
Which hue she most approv’d, she chose them 
all; 
Copious of flow’rs the woodbine, pale and wan. 
But well compensating her sickly looks 
With never-cloying odours, early and late ! 
Hypericum all bloom, so thick a swarm 
Of flow’rs, like flies clothing her slender rods, 
That scarce a leaf appears : mezereon too, 
Though leafless, well attir’d, and thick beset 
With blushing wreaths, investingev’ry spray ; 
* The guelder-rose. 
