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Epigrams of art, life, and nature

By William Watson

Watson, William (1858-1935)

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VIII. SHELLEY AND HARRIET WESTBROOK.

A great star stoop'd from heaven and loved a flower
Grown in earth's garden—loved it for an hour:
Let eyes which trace his orbit in the spheres
Refuse not, to a ruin'd rosebud, tears.