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LINES ON SUNRISE.
Oh! how beautiful, how fairThe Sunrise shows—the barren air
Is one luxuriant wild of hues,
For the crowned Sun unsparing strews
His coloured splendours over all,
More sumptuous than a royal pall—
With flowery treasures all outspread,
Appears the great vault overhead,
For many a cloud now burns and glows
Like the Summer's richest rose—
And some are like the golden showers
Of the bright Laburnum flowers;
And some are like the violet,
(Though not like that in emerald set)—
In days of old mythology
A lovelier Flora of the sky
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E'en on this glad and glorious morn!
So brilliantly o'er Heaven's clear floor
Seems scattered now the flowery store.
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