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Yellow Lily. — ‘ Coquetry 
I have little to say in palliation of the fashionable amusement 
of coquetry, though even that may serve to ‘ point a moral.’ 
Gaudy Flower ! Gay Coquette ! 
Brilliant are the charms you wear; 
Fairer seldom have been met, 
Sooner few can disappear. 
Gorgeous Flower! I like you not, 
Changing with each passing breath, 
Shortly to be quite forgot, 
Sinking down in certain death. 
But, e’en thou perchance may speak 
A moral e’er thou leav’st the scene, 
And Beauty’s fan, but fading cheek 
See itself in thee I ween! 
