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The Water Star-Flower.— £ Love in deaths ‘ Trust' 
This flower grows in low and marshy places, and abounds among 
the swamps of Florida. — I once saw one, which was gathered by a 
young officer, during the terrible campaign of ’36, and sent in a 
letter to his mother. 
Thou symbol Flower! whose star-like beauty glows. 
Serene and pure, ’mid dread miasma’s breath, 
And doth with touching tenderness disclose 
The vivid sentiment of ‘ Love in death,’ 
Be to my heart a messenger, and bear 
Its gentle feelings to my mother dear! 
Tell her the soldier’s weary foot has brushed 
Slowly, but surely, past thy modest charms, 
Sparing the fragile thing so lightly crushed, 
To whisper quiet to her dread alarms; 
To breathe a hope when darkest dangers lower, 
And point a Christian moral, simple flower! 
