The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-06-03
LITERARY EXAMINER.


br nes. MHs. NeHreS.
"when walk among nay flowers, am very
glad 10 see
That amid all Lile's wild changes, they are still
the same TO me.
My frends may wander from me, for pleasure or
for pain,
Ten thousand reasons part us,-but my flowers
must remain,
Tzty have no altered destiny, which beas them
far away,
Like the old familiar faces which We miss lor
many Gay,
When tirst they leave vacant place, and, van
ISL from oilr view,
In the pleasant friendly circle, that was formed
when lie was new.
For smaller smaller, every day, that lessening
circle grows;
As Death, or Change, still steals away the lily
and the rose;
Shll Tops, with dnrelenting stroke, the bough
WhereOR we leaned;
Sull blIghts the bud, whose fairy grace, our
hOme-BOwer softly scfeenedl
My flowers MUST remain with me; feel there Is
NO chance,
That they should start for Italy,--or cross the
sea 10 France;
Or down the dark blue Danube sailor tour it
Or be smitten BY teverish wish, 'to visit Pales-
tine
Poor little dumb delightful friends,-Ileave them
when Will,
And patiently, on my return, I find them wait
ing stlll
the daughters Of the beauties, Of my very
Youthful DAYS,
Are brought TO me, by Mothers fond, for compli-
ment and praise;
Bat some are shy,--and some are cold, and
some, with ANXIOUS eve,
a xpbn mi an
adv BY.
Now, the Daughters of the Roses neyertum Their
heads away;
Where the Mothers smiled, they also smile, from
every veTdani spray,
Each copying so closely, the parent blush and
bloom,
That j scarcely miss the others, who have met 8
But smiling as walk along, beneath the sum,
sky,
GIVE the buds the self-same welcome, that CAV,
the flowers gone byl
Oh msny-colorei dsrlingsl your speeches
beauty moves
Ny heart 10 fond division Of thousand differ
ent loves
Too surely, when the Angels were banished from
the eauh,
They left goa, as their legacy Of beauty and o
ninth;
And wheEeso' eT their white calm feet then rest
al on the world,
howTet's shape was buried, whose germ lie
closely cuTled,-
TIL. IN the spnng, with lovely eye, out-peepinl
II lays its soft cheek on the turf, and gazes up q
Cod
'Ne PlayfellOws OF Sunbeams,-who does no
bless your blOOml
The children in the meadOw,-the sick man il
has room;
The youthful lover, treasunng, rose which al
ter years
Shall show all dry and withered, tho often we
with tsars:
The old man, walking slowly, THO the dshlia'
cOlOTed ranks,
Yea, even the blind msn,-seaied lone anon
the primrose banks.
Loves token! Cmldhood's TREASURED Manhood
soOthingl Ages Joy!
Hope, which no foe can take away,-no sappin
gnef destroy
How often have ye met my eyes, in pleasure an
an pain,
And never yet left YOU, but | wished to CON
againl
The love Of Heavens dumb life partakss, Hea,
ems own sweet sense Of peace:
Great gnel, and heavy mourning, have give
loss on earth,-
My BLaNcHEl nay broken Lilyl that loved e e
from her birth
When on her pure angelic face, my eyes hs
looked their last,
knew, since death had nipped her spring.
hie's bloom for me, was past
But | see my hOwret's perish without regret
fear,
know that every summeT-sun, again shall bnn
them near.
know, that with untamished bloom, they
wave around my way,
When the winter, with its dead brown Leaves
hath melted all away.
And often by their dumb sweet looks, my heart
drawn 30 feel,
As AZ they conscious gszed at me,-with sileT
strong appeal,
FOrtust in God; who formed this world impe
feet al the best,
Who gave us years Of tnal,-and only hours
rest;
But left them, emblems .cf that life OF beaut
and IepOse,
Winch shall follow, when the toll and care
thIS worlds tumults close:
When the digging. and the delyIng, and the str
wing, shall be past,
And the seeds,-sO long earth-buned,-shall b
Heavenly Flowers at lasti''