THE ROSE AND THE FERN.
Lady, life's sweetest lesson would'st thnn lonrn, Come them with me to love's enchanted bower ; High overhear! the trellised ruses burn, Beneath thy feet behold the feathery fern— A leaf without a flower.
What though the rose leaves fall ? They still are sweet, And have been lovely in their beauteous prime, While the bare frond seems ever to repeat, " J''or us no bud, no blossom wakes to greet Thejoyous flowering tiu.e !"
Hoed them tliis lesson. Life has leaves to tread, And flowers to cherish; summer round thee gl'>ws, Wait not till uutumn'a fading rubes are shed, But while its petals still are burning rod (lather life's full blown lose ! Du. Holmk.s.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2820, 9 August 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)
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116THE ROSE AND THE FERN. Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2820, 9 August 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)
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