JEtarnjoIir. 73 
When, with a serious musing, I behold 
The grateful and obsequious Marigold, 
How duly, every morning, she displays 
Her open breast when Phoebus spreads his rays; 
How she observes him in his daily walk 
Still bending towards him her small slender stalk; 
How, when he down declines, she droops and mourns, 
Bedewed as ’twere with tears till he returns. 
Withers. 
I need not say how, one by one, 
Love’s flowers have dropped from off love’s chain, 
Enough to say that they are gone, 
And that they cannot bloom again. 
Miss London. 
We sometimes see a shadow swiftly skim 
In summer o’er the hills and vales of earth: 
So transient shades steal o’er the face of mirth, 
And frequent tears the brightest eyes bedim. 
MacKellar. 
Thine is a grief that wastes the heart, 
Like mildew on a tulip’s dyes— 
When hope, deferred but to depart, 
Loses its smiles but keeps its sighs. 
Miss Landon. 
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