IF, the rude mountain turf adorning,
Some lowly flower should chance to rise,
With simple charms to greet the morning;
Tho’ plac’d beneath ungenial skies;
And with no fertile soil to cherish,
No shade to screen it from the blast;
Expos’d or in the birth to perish,
Or brave the storm which o’er it past;
Tho’ it can never boast the neatness,
The varied tints, majestic air,
The rich luxuriance, or the sweetness,
Which grace the garden’s inmates fair:
Oh let the curious florist spare it
When the lone mountain gem he spies;
Tho’ he with those can not compare it,
Yet it may please some humbler eyes.
Oft have I seen a lovely blossom,
Rearing its unprotected form
Upon the rugged wild’s bleak bosom,
Unshelter’d from the piercing storm.
Yet sweetly there it grew and flourish’d,
In humble charms to deck the waste,
By frequent showers and sunbeams nourish’d;
And oft I’ve stay’d my eager haste,
To view the flower so unassuming,
So simple, yet so spotless fair,
Which on no higher rank presuming,
Blossoms and dies in secret there;
And thought perhaps my artless ditties,
Had better like their sister been,
Still all unknown in towns and cities,
And had bloom’d and died unseen.
(Isabella Lickbarrow)
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