NO flattery here with poison’d sweets I send,
But Nature softly sueing for her friend;
For while with flowers I dress’d each tender thought,
She smiling took each hint my fancy caught;
An essence then refin’dly sweet did breathe,
That swift infused a SOUL into a WREATH.
See here Affection blooms in roseate hue,
Here softly tinted Truth’s celestial blue;
Here Innocence in lily white is seen,
Here Constancy’s unfading evergreen;
Quick Sensibility, whose power to tell,
The elegant Mimosa shows so well;
And modest Genius, of a form so rare,
The laurel hides what it should proudly wear.
(Mrs. Walter Spencer)
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