CONCLUDING PIECES. 
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God has given a kindlier power 
To the favor’d strawberry-flower. 
When the months of spring are fled, 
Hither let us bend our walk ; 
Lurking berries, ripe and red, 
Then will hang on every stalk, 
Each within its leafy bower ; 
And for that promise, spare the flower. 
LINES SUGGESTED BY RECEIVING A ELOWER 
WHICH GREW ON MOUNT TABOR. 
“ Fair stranger-flower—with crimson gem, 
And leaf so soft, and downy stem— 
O tell me in what foreign land 
Did those bright petals first expand ? 
When didst thou feel the cooling gale, 
And when the welcome sunbeam hail 1” 
“ Mortal ! ’neath sunny skies I grew, 
And I have drunk heav’ns holiest dew— 
The very air breath’d pure around, 
And softly fann’d the holy ground. 
O know’st thou where the incarnate God 
Once in His unveil’d glory trod ? 
When, though He sojourn’d still with men, 
Heaven’s splendour round Him shone again. 
