SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 90, 30 October 1869, Page 5

SELECT POETRY.

THE CHOICE. J Now let me choose a native blossom, Ere I quit the sunny fields, Fittest for my Lucy's bosom, Hill, or brake, or meadow yields. Flag or poppy I'll not gather, Briony or pimpernel ; Scented thyme or sprouting heather, Though I like them both so well. Purpling vetches, crimson clover, Pea-bloom winglets, pied and faint, Bluebell, windflow'r, pass them over ; Sober mallow, orchis quaint ; Striped convolvulus, in hedges, Columbine, and mountain pink ; Lillies, floating seen through sedges, Violets nestling by the hrink ; Creamy eWer, blue germander, Betony that seeks the shade ; JTor where honeysuckles wander, May that luscious balm persuade, Sad forget-me-nots a token Full of'partings and mishaps ; Leave the foxglove spire unbroken, Lest the fairies want for caps. Crimson looae-strife, crowfoot, pansy, Golden gorse, or gold 1 en broom, Eyebright cannot fix my fancy, Nor the meadow sweet's perfume, Azure, scarlet, pink, or pearly, llustic friends in field or grove — Each of you I prizje, full deaily : None of you is for my love ! Wild rose ! delicately flushing All the border of the dale - Art thou like a pale cheek blushing, Or a red cheek turning pale ? Is it sorrow ? Is it gladness ? Lover's hopes, or lover's fe ars ? Or a most delicious sadness, p Mingled up of smiles and tears ? Come ! -no silky lenflet shaken — To a breast aspure and fair ; Come ! anj^^ghts more tender waken Tban^^^^rant spirit there ! William Alunghasi,