


{28 THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
Unsullied as the morning dew, 
Descend, and all thy soul imbue. 
Yes! like the blossoms of the waste 
Would we the sky-born waters taste, 
To the High Fountain’s sacred spring 
‘The chalice let us humbly bring : 
So shall we find the streams of heaven 
To him who seeks are freely given ; 
The morning and the evening dew 
Shall still our failing strength renew. 

oa 
A CYPRESS LEAF, 
FOR THE GRAVE OF A DEAR ONE, 
Tus feelings I have felt have died away, 
The love that was my lamp death’s dews have 
quench’d ; 
The faith which, through life’s ills, ne’er knew 
decay, 
Hath in the chill showers of the grave been 
drench’d ; 
The hopes that buoyed my spirit ’mid the spray 
Of life’s wild ocean, one by one are wrench’d— 
Cruelly wrench’d away,—and I am now 
A solitary leaf on a rent bough! 
The link that knit me to mankind is snapp’d— 
Briefly it bound me to a callous world; 

















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