. Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life . is fairer still. Tis giand neath palace walls to blaze where lords and ladies go;To hang oer marble founts, and shineIn modern gardens trim and line ; 70 THE ROSE OF MAY. But the Rose of May is only seenWhere the great of other days have been. The house is mouldering stone by stone,The garden-walks are overgrown;The flowers are low, the weeds are high,The fountain-stream is choked and dry;The dial-stone with moss is green,Whereer the Rose of May is The Rose of May its pride displayedAlong the old stone balustrade ;And anci
. Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life . is fairer still. Tis giand neath palace walls to blaze where lords and ladies go;To hang oer marble founts, and shineIn modern gardens trim and line ; 70 THE ROSE OF MAY. But the Rose of May is only seenWhere the great of other days have been. The house is mouldering stone by stone,The garden-walks are overgrown;The flowers are low, the weeds are high,The fountain-stream is choked and dry;The dial-stone with moss is green,Whereer the Rose of May is The Rose of May its pride displayedAlong the old stone balustrade ;And ancient ladies, quaintly dight,In its pink blossoms took delight, THE ROSE OF MAY. 71 And on the steps would make a stand,To scent its sweetness, fan in hand. Long have been dead those ladies gay;Their very heirs have passed away;And their old portraits, prim and tall,Are mouldering in the mouldering hall;The terrace and the balustradeLie broken, weedy, and decayed. But, lithe and tall, the Rose of MayShoots upward through the ruin gray,With scented flower, and leaf pale green,Such rose as it hath ever been;Left, like a noble deed, to graceThe memory of an ancient race. > ■ >i /V V^P 1^ S.^ THE FLAX-FLOWER 0 THE little Flax-flower ! It groweth on the hill,And, be the breeze awake or sleep, It never standeth groweth, and it groweth fast; One day it is a then a little grassy blade, Scarce better than a then out comes the Flax-flower, As blue as is the sky;And Tis a dainty little thi
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