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INTRODUCTORY STANZAS.

To bud, to blossom, and to fade;
May seem of flowers the tale ;-
Why seek to twine a deathless braid
Of things so slight, and frail ?

Because unto the simplest flower
Is given a magic art,

To point-in meditation's bour,
Some moral to the heart.

Surely that moral best may plead

Its tenderness and truth,

With those who such fair tablets read
While yet in opening youth.

Did not our blessed Lord-who taught

As man can never teach,

Unfold to feeling, and to thought,

The truths which these can preach?

B

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