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TO A CABBAGE ROSE

Sweet messenger! thou waftest beauty Wherever human lives are sown,Around the peasant’s humble duty Or weary grandeurs of a throne.
Transfused through hearts in future ages, Thy glowing power anew may shineEffulgent in the poets’ pages Or music’s harmony divine,
But not to thee from future glory Can shine one added charm or day;Sweet is thy life’s unwritten story Of radiant bloom and swift decay.
Give, then, to vagrant winds thy sweetness, Shine, tearful, in the summer shower;And, heedless of thy seasen’s fleetness, Enrich with joy the passing hour.

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