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Floral Poetry. 
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SUGGESTED BY SOME LATE AUTUMN FLOWERS. 
T HESE few pale Autumn flowers, 
How beautiful they are ! 
Than all that went before, 
Than all the Summer store, 
How lovelier far ! 
And why ? they are the last ! 
The last! the last ! the last! 
Oh ! by that little word 
How many thoughts are stirred, 
That whisper of the past. 
Pale flowers ! pale perishing flowers ! 
Ye’re types of precious things : 
Types of those better moments 
That flit, like Life’s enjoyments, 
On rapid, rapid wings. 
Last hours with parting dear ones 
(That time the fastest spends); 
Last tears in silence shed ; 
Last words half uttered; 
Last looks of dying friends. 
Who but would fain compress 
A life into a day— 
The last day spent with one, 
Who, ere to-morrow’s sun, 
Must leave us, and for aye ! 
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