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Sensibility to the Beauty and Fragrance of Flowers
How freely do the flowers their wealth bestowOf beauteous tints on every passer by!
How freely, too, their fragrance round them throw!
To none, who pass, their gifts do they deny.
But though for all their beauty they dispense,
Alike for all their fragrance round them fling,
Yet is there wanting oft a finer sense,
Than to their blooming bowers we thoughtless bring.
So, when I meet them in the vale, or wood,
Or, on the hill, their varied charms survey;
Blest with some purer thought, some happier mood,
They to my soul a new delight convey;
And, to their well-known haunts, as I draw near,
More fair they seem, more fragrant they appear.
Poem No. 186; c. 28 July 1865
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