LINES 
SUGGESTED BY THE SIGHT OF SOME LATE AUTUMN 
FLOWERS. 
These 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. 
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