TO A JASMINE-TREE. Is the Court of Haworth Castle. By EARLGREY.
My slight and lender Jasmine-tree, That blooniest on my border tower, Thou uvt m ire donrly lovcd^byroe Than. »H the wealth of fairy bower. , I a>>k not, whflo I near thee dwell, Arabia a <<pice or Syria's rose, 'Thy licht festoons more freshly smell, Thy virgin white more freshly glows. My mild and winsome Jasmine-tree. That clinibest up the daik grey wall, "Thy tiny flowerets seem in glee, Like silver spray-drops, down to fall : iSay, did they from their leaves thus peep, When mailed moss-troopers rode the bill, "When helmed warders paced the keep, And bugles blew for Belted Will ? My free and feathery Jasmine-tree, Within the fragrance of thy breath, You dungeon grated to its key, And the chained captive pined for death. On border fray, on feudel crime, I dream not while I gaze on thee I The chieftains of that stern old time Could ne'er have loved a Jasmine-tree.
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Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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163TO A JASMINE-TREE. Is the Court of Haworth Castle. By EARLGREY. Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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