A FAV’RITE flow’r, while on its genial bed,
Salubrious air, from noxious vapours free,
And screen’d from piercing cold, or drifting show’r,
For frag’rance, and in beauty doth excel:
With early culture crown’d, its leaves expand,
Amongst its compeers seen in fairest hue,
Surpassing each; this fost’ring care repaid.
And dropping dew its sweetness still improves;
Or when an ev’ning breeze blows gentle gales,
Exhales around its delicate perfumes,
And stands confess’d unrivel’d in the shade.
When morning dawns, with blessings ever new,
Displays its loveliness to rising sun,
Now cherish’d by his vivifying rays.
Thus it shines forth in every varied glow,
Admir’d by all, and by the fair carress’d,
While with their cheeks it vies in beauteous tint,
Each one exclaims, What an elegant rose!
But if while rearing it should chance to be
Sudden transplanted to some bleaken soil
Or barren, rather unfrequented waste,
There plac’d alone, amidst impendent storms,
No more the dew-drop glisters on its stem,
Or gives a brightness to its silken folds.
Ah! languid now, each fibre colour’s faint,
And early blossoms sickly at the core,
Lovely it bends, deprived of genial warmth,
Or timely aid to raise its drooping form.-
‘Tis fragrant still, but moisture is decayed,
And for sweet scent, it only can be priz’d.
If scorching beams pervade at noon day hour,
Or chilling blast, when comes the close of eve,
Should light upon its now unsheltered top,
How soon it withers on its tender stalk,
Or only pining bows its head and dies.
Likeness of Margaretta, loss of friends,
Unkindness and neglect, like keen north winds,
Or such as parch the desert burning suns,
Hath nip’d her prospects from their early dawn,
And stampt the colour of her future years.
(Margaretta Wedderburn)
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