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CHARLEY.
God gave him, and, from year to year,
The precious gift yet dearer grew,
And breathed his gentle spirit through
The beings he was sent to cheer.
The precious gift yet dearer grew,
And breathed his gentle spirit through
The beings he was sent to cheer.
We watched him:—so the loving gaze
Upon the petals of a rose,
That spread and sweeten, as it grows
To blossom in the donor's praise.
Upon the petals of a rose,
That spread and sweeten, as it grows
To blossom in the donor's praise.
One day, before our wondering eyes,
Expanded by an inward power,
The infant bud became a flower
In all the hues of Paradise!
Expanded by an inward power,
The infant bud became a flower
In all the hues of Paradise!
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The gift was taken, in full bloom;
But flowers their odors leave behind,
Diffusing all the tempered wind
With Memory's sweet and sad perfume.
But flowers their odors leave behind,
Diffusing all the tempered wind
With Memory's sweet and sad perfume.
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