Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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VERSEOFFERINGS. |
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VERSEOFFERINGS.
Here, Reader, here are garnered up for thee,My first fresh Years of Youth: the Scent of those
Pure Flowers of Love and Hope, which, like the Rose,
Most fragrant ever in Lifesspringtide be.
Chuse at thy Pleasure, haply thou mayst see
Some little, modest Floweret which grows
Unconscious of the Charm, to which it owes
Thy Preference; and which perhaps, when the
More gaudy ones are withered, shall not fade.
For oft what in our Pride of Heart we made
To witness for us, passes like a Thought,
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Becomes the Theme of Praise, bursts from the Sha de,
Like Violets, full of Nature's Perfume fraught!
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