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TO A FLOWER

FOUND DEAD IN A BOOK OF POETRY.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Colorless, scentless, faded, melancholy,

A score of years you've missed warm sun, sweet air,

Yet happier you than those so gay and jolly

In the parterre.

Useless they bloom, and useless will they wither,

Little the better for their short-lived glory.

Well might they envy that which brought you hither, -

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