
|| TUE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 1B 
TT £3 T M Q ROSE 
I ii LOSS-ROSE. 
1] Armrnxr Omnpt aT 
| BY JOHN STERLING. 

1OSSY rose On MOssy 
| Flowering ’mid the ruins iahie, 
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1 have learnt, beholding ae 
Youth and Age may well agree. 
Baby germ of freshest hue, 
Out of ruin issuing new ; 
Moss a long laborious omen, 
| And one stalk supporting both s 
Thus may still, while fades the past, 
Life come forth again as fast; 
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| Happy if the relics sere 
Deck a cradle, not a bier. 
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| Tear the garb, the spirit flies, 
eae the heart unshelter’d, dies; 
Kill within the nursling flower, 
| Scarce the green survives an hour. 
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| fiver thus together live 
| And to man See sso fesse 
3s, the work of vanished years, 
, that but to-day aj 



