FAREWELL TO THE FLOWERS.
Now sink to dreams, O sweet -wild forest flowers, Whose lips have filled with peace the summer's breath. Pour fair eyes close on all your rustling bowers, And fear not that the secret kiss of death Shall pearl your tender brows with blighting frost. Ye die, sweet flowers, but ye are not lost. Bow down your heads, you tender-tinted blooms, And sink to fearless dreams. O fair green ferns ! Soon will tho snowflakes mark your lonely tombs, And bleak winds sigh your names till spring returns. Sleep, gentle tilings of peace I love so well ; Ye shall not fall without my simple knell. How fair, how bright shall be your lowly graves. Where autumn's crystal dews fall hushed as t PUTS Sweet flowers, the good Lord loves you, and he saves Your spirits in the seeds for other years. By his own hand your lives again are sown, And each He guards and watches as His own.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 84, 10 January 1885, Page 4
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161FAREWELL TO THE FLOWERS. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 84, 10 January 1885, Page 4
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