15346.4 کو US1004858hage Library! Wein the Library of Rov. A. P. Peabody! Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, BY DERBY & JACKSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the To Belle Brittan, WITH A FEW WILD FLOWERS FROM THE WOODS OF ILLINOIS. I SEND you flowers-wild flowers only Oh, touch them, take them with a reverent hand! I gathered them FOR YOU, in wood paths lonely, A shrinking band. I send you wild flowers, faded tokens; You see the glory of their morn is gone; Each fragile censer, filled with incense, broken, Which flushed their dawn. I send you violets, all wan and shrunken, The purple wine from every chalice spilled; Their dewy eyes, which drank the sunbeams, sunken, Their soft life stilled. Poor little flowers! ye all bloomed and faded In chilly corners, where no zephyrs hide; Your narrow arc of beauty shadows shaded, Until you died. No one to love you in the darksome forest; THOU, who dost gather from enchanted bowers The rarest blossoms which entrance the eyes, Has thy rich heart a home for these pale flowers, In pilgrim guise? |