BLOOM, SUMMER FLOWERS.
i BtMABGABET THOMAS, '
Bloom, rammer flowers ! Ql«n smile-like o'er the tshen wintry plain, low dark without ye seems this earth of onrs ! (jidden like angel-eyes oar souls again ! f Fer you we wept fhro'the long darkness of the winter hours. While in your mother's breast ye sweetly slept, {bettering your infant heads, O lovely flowers. The lark on high, ' 17here dwells he in the bosom of the mist Has called ye : and pale sunbeams born to die, 7our post-bound er»dle-bed have gently kiss'd. Come then at last ! Ai the earth's prayers toward high heaven arise I Like stars whioh gazed into the fading past, And penetrate the present mysteries. Tour blessing may' Bemain with us when ye are faded, gone : Not vain as are our Jives which pass away ' To cumber earth with an unheeded stone. Yet from that sod Shall rise fresh flowers when spring again descends A sweet thank-offering not unwerchy God Nor the frail temple of the soul he lends. ■!» Blcom, summer flowers ! West winds have chased the pale snows to their home. Come trembling darlings of our fields and bowers Sweet harbingers of summer sunshine, come! England, Feb., 1872.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 5 December 1872, Page 9
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196BLOOM, SUMMER FLOWERS. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 5 December 1872, Page 9
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