BLOW lovely rose-the breath of Zephyr
Softly fans thy glowing breast:
Blow, lovely rose, the bush adorning,
Till by Chloe’s hand carest,
She place thee in her gentle bosom,
To bloom beneath her smiling eye.
But court not that exalted station,
Thou would’st languish there and die.
Then, thy native bush adorning,
Lovely rose-bud, longer stay;
And yonder see the sun advancing
Ardent pours his fervid ray.
Soon shall thy dewy leaves unfolding,
With inviting fragrance blow;
And by his noontide beams expanded,
With unrivall’d lustre glow.
Then, thy full-blown charms disclosing,
Matchless Rose, sweet Queen of flowers!
A while may ev’ry eye admire thee,
Pride of these delightful bowers.
But ah! how transient thy existence,
Short thy longest reign will be;
Not many mornings shall I greet thee,
Smiling on thy prickly tree.
See where, their languid heads reclining,
Thy companions droop around,
Ah! see where, faded all and wither’d,
Scatter’d leaves bestrew the ground.
Ah! lovely rose that fate awaits thee,
Thou their lowly bed must share;
Soon will a ruder gale assailing,
Spread thy blushing honours there.
And I perhaps not many summers
May hail the Rose’s beauteous bloom,
And sigh to think how soon ’twill perish,
Ere I too drop into the tomb.
What muse will then in strains of sorrow,
Pour the simple dirge for me?
What kindred mind inspir’d by pity
Frame one plaintive elegy?
I, like the wild flowers of the mountains,
That unknown unheeded die,
Like them shall leave a name unhonour’d,
And like them forgotten lie.
(Isabella Lickbarrow)
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