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LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MY DAUGHTER ON LEAVING HER SCHOOL GARDEN AT---
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY MY DAUGHTER ON LEAVING HER SCHOOL GARDEN AT---

I

Adieu! ye flowers—ye happy hours,
Where childhood basked in sunny bow'rs;
Ye still will bloom—but not for me
Thine odours load the breeze;
The sun's bright rays will shine on ye,
And greenness clothe the trees.
Alas! that childhood thus should pass,
As shadows o'er a polished glass.

II

And must I leave the gems I love?
Ah! who will toil and watch above
My garden's store—my garden's pride?
There weeds at will may grow;
The primrose and the daisy pied
Will now unheeded blow.
For never more my hand may twine
The buds and flow'rs which once were mine.

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III

Farewell! bright spot! in mem'ry's eye
Ye long will dwell; and if a sigh
Should sometimes start, 'twill be to think
How happy and how blest
My spring-tide hours—life's earliest link,—
Which flung o'er all a zest;
And made my garden seem to be
A paradise of rest to me.