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FUNERAL FLOWERS. 
Bring flowers ! thus said the lovely song ; 
And shall they not be brought 
To her who linked the offering 
With feeling and with thought ? 
“ Bring flowers—the perfumed and the pure— 
Those with the morning dew, 
A sigh on every fragrant leaf, 
A tear on every hue. 
So pure, so sweet, thy life has been, 
So filling earth and air 
With odors, and with loveliness, 
Till common scenes grow fair.” 
THE WEDDING WAKE. 
BY GEORGE DARLEY. 
We’ll carry her o’er the churchyard green, 
Down by the willow trees ; 
We’ll bury her by herself between 
Two sister cypresses. 
Flowers of the sweetest, saddest hue, 
Shall deck her lowly bed, 
Rosemary at her feet we’ll strew, 
And violets at her head 
