Conversations introducing poetry chiefly on subjects of natural history. For the use of children and young persons. By Charlotte Smith |
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TO A GREEN-CHAFER, ON A WHITE ROSE.
You dwell within a lovely bower,
Little chafer, gold and green,
Nestling in the fairest flower,
The rose of snow, the garden's queen.
Little chafer, gold and green,
Nestling in the fairest flower,
The rose of snow, the garden's queen.
There you drink the chrystal dew,
And your shards as emeralds bright
And corselet, of the ruby's hue,
Hide among the petals white.
And your shards as emeralds bright
And corselet, of the ruby's hue,
Hide among the petals white.
Your fringed feet may rest them there,
And there your filmy wings may close,
But do not wound the flower so fair
That shelters you in sweet repose.
And there your filmy wings may close,
But do not wound the flower so fair
That shelters you in sweet repose.
Insect! be not like him who dares
On pity's bosom to intrude,
And then that gentle bosom tears
With baseness and ingratitude.
On pity's bosom to intrude,
And then that gentle bosom tears
With baseness and ingratitude.
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