The Reliquary By Bernard and Lucy Barton. With A Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets |
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TO THE WHITE JASMINE. |
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TO THE WHITE JASMINE.
Jasmine! thy fair and star-like flower with honours should be crowned;
In day's rude din, and garish hour it sheds faint sweetness round;
But still at eve its beauteous bloom with fragrance fills the air,
As if to cheer the hours of gloom, and soothe the brow of care.
In day's rude din, and garish hour it sheds faint sweetness round;
But still at eve its beauteous bloom with fragrance fills the air,
As if to cheer the hours of gloom, and soothe the brow of care.
Oh! thus in fortune's dazzling ray the light of love seems pale,
Till dark clouds o'er the glow of day, have cast their shadowy veil;
Then like thy odours it bursts forth a guide to joy's glad goal,
Bless'd beacon of surpassing worth, and Pole-star of the soul.
Till dark clouds o'er the glow of day, have cast their shadowy veil;
Then like thy odours it bursts forth a guide to joy's glad goal,
Bless'd beacon of surpassing worth, and Pole-star of the soul.
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