Some Pressed Flowers.
Here in my poet's book I see The flowers your sweet hand plucked for me. I turn the leaves ; each page is fraught -With gentle flowers of fragrant thought All loveliest things are there, I deem, That haunt the poet's waking dream. jl turn the leaves; your-flowers' dear faces Q-leam, book-marks of the sweetest places (Yet ne'er a sweeter thought I read ; Than those the mute flowers know, indeed) And evermore they seem to look Whene'er I open their prisoning book And cheated, take—a moment's space— Their jailor's for their angel's face ; Then, sere aud withering, only mi _ The resurrection of your Jin I, - .
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)
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110Some Pressed Flowers. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)
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