Floral Poetry. 
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THE PRIMROSE. 
JHTIHE Sun declines; his parting ray 
^ Shall bear the cheerful light away, 
And on the landscape close ; 
Then will I seek the lonely vale, 
Where sober evening’s Primrose pale 
To greet the night-star blows. 
Soft, melancholy bloom, to thee 
I turn with conscious sympathy ! 
Like thee my hour is come, 
When lengthening shadows slowly fade, 
Till, lost in universal shade, 
They sink beneath the tomb. 
By thee I’ll sit and inly muse; 
What are the charms in life we lose 
When time demands our breath? 
Alas ! the load of lengthened age 
Has little can our wish engage, 
Or point the shaft of death. 
No; ’tis alone the pang to part 
With those we love that rends the heart; 
That agony to save, 
Some nameless cause in nature strives. 
Like thee, in shades our hope revives, 
And blossoms in the grave. 
Mrs. Hunter. 
