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{ StarJet Floral shades ! how still and pale Apd prostrate Ke tliy petals frail ; Wh y wert thou not i ^ nelds still pluming , Amid thy grassy tribes still blooitting ?
Scarcely the spring hath giv n ye breath , And your young forms lie fall n in death : How did ye die ? Oh ! what rude hand Tore ye * from your own sunny band ; Oh ! one would think your fleeting share Of life so beautifully fair , The most unthinking heart would spare .
Then , as I linger'd o ' er their forms , Now past the powV of calm and storms , My flitting thoughts , still drooping , turn'd , And tears invisible and inly burn'd : Visions of mourning spread their pall , And o ' er each sense did sick ' ning fall , Deadening each joy , and dark ' ning all . Methought before me , silent , side by side , Lay two twin children who had newly died ; So still , so young , so like in face , So like in form , so like in grace . Their pretty lips were clos'd and mild , The eyelids down of either child ;
A remnant of a lovely smile , Still hung near either mouth ; and while They cold and pale and breathless laid , There , as in life , the dimples play'd , And seem'd to tell , when death invaded , How in their pure young smiles they faded ; And still each deep and dimpled sign Of life and spring did placid shine ; Death would not all his blighting wreak , But left them on each tender cheek , Like chiseVd waves on marble whiteness , Half life , half death , half shade , half brightness .
And then another vision came , And spread its still light through my frame . Methought I saw them as they slept , While to their side their Parent crept , Who kiss'd them with a parent ' s pride , And from their foreheads did divide Their yet bright ringlets , dressing them In wavy , wreath-like diadem-Then straight dispos ed their beauteous limbs , While o ' er their forms his visage swims , Then kissing them again , their breath He fttopp'd , and as they paled in death ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/49/
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