WILD FLOWERS. 27 
The Sweet Brier. 
Our sweet, autumnal, western-scented wind, 
Robs of its odors none so sweet a flower, 
In all the blooming waste it left behind, 
As that, the Sweet-brier yields it; and the shower 
Wets not a rose that buds in beauty’s bower 
One half so lovelyyet it grows along 
The poor girl’s pathway, by the poor man’s door, 
Such are the simple folks it dwells among; 
And humble as the bud, so humble be the song. 
I love it, for it takes its untouched stand, 
Not in the vase that sculptors decorate; 
Its sweetness all is of my native land; 
And e’en its fragrant leaf has not its mate 
Among the perfumes which the rich and great 
Buy from the odors of the spicy east. 
You love your flowers and plants; and will you 
hate 
Tire little four-leaved rose that. I love best, 
That freshest will awake, and sweetest go to rest ? 
