POETRY OF FLOAVERS, 
241 
And I will then the laurel t'yine, 
Unmingled with the columbine. 
THE EARLY SNOWDROP. 
E-MERaiNQ from its wintry tomb, 
See the spotless snowdrop peep,— 
Burst the ice-bound earth and bloom. 
While more tender flowrets sleep. 
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Pledge of the genial coming year. 
Amid the gloom of winter gay. 
Smiling through the morning tear.— 
The^tribute tear of early day. 
Death awaits thy faultless form,— 
Less beauteous flowers safe may blossom ; 
Thus I snatch thee from the storm. 
To grace my lovely Anna’s bosom. 
THE NIGHT-BLOWING CEREUS. 
Fair flower, whose coy and difiSdent revealings 
Bloom to the gaze of pensive night alone; 
Thuu seem’st a record of my wayward feelings,_ 
For when life’s glittering sunbeams round me 
shone, 
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Q 
