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Tho’ despis’d and neglected, this singular flower 
When duly consulted, can point out the hour . 
The Pimpernel came from her home in the corn, 
Aud the poor little rustic was treated with scorn; 
When she folded her petals and prophesied rain, 
Like another Cassandra, she warn’d them in vain: 
There were some among them , could the weather discern, 
So they bade her to reapers and shepherds return. 
The Wall-flower known as Adversity’s friend, 
And Rosemary and Cypress were gone to attend, 
And to deck out the grave and the winding sheet strew, 
Of a beautiful bud that had dropt where it grew. 
Child of Promise and Hope it was cut down alas 
In mistake by the scythe and lay wither’d like grass. 
By the Yew-tree invited and summon’d by Grief, 
They had put on her garb and each wore the dead leaf \ 
Helinia delared she must follow the bier, 
For Sorrow demanded the fall of her tear. 
And the other chief mourner , the White Asphodel , 
Was oblig’d to attend the funereal knell ; 
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