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A NOSEGAY.
When Flora wore her gayest vest,
Each meadow breath'd perfume,
In gaudiest flow'rs each hedge-briar drest,
Each hawthorn white with bloom,
Each meadow breath'd perfume,
In gaudiest flow'rs each hedge-briar drest,
Each hawthorn white with bloom,
I wander'd thro' each mead and grove,
The fairest flow'rs to cull,
And visited my gay alcove,
Each sweetest bud to pull.
The fairest flow'rs to cull,
And visited my gay alcove,
Each sweetest bud to pull.
The posie gather'd home I brought,
To grace my fair-one's breast.
Then thus, as teeming Fancy taught,
Each flow'r its worth exprest—
To grace my fair-one's breast.
Then thus, as teeming Fancy taught,
Each flow'r its worth exprest—
For Fancy, who in clouded skies
Pourtrays the varying tale,
Can give each flow'r a voice whose dyes
Enrich the scented vale.
Pourtrays the varying tale,
Can give each flow'r a voice whose dyes
Enrich the scented vale.
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