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Dublin Core
Title
[Lines]
Creator
[Unknown]
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
April 1877
Contributor
Jenna Zan, Josh Dobbs
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Poem
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.6 (April 1877), p.2
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[For the Gray Jacket.
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sent to a young lady with a withered rose pinned upon the paper.
Go, drooping flower, to Laura go,
And to the fair one say
That Beauty boasts a trasient glow
And blooms but to decay.
Tell her, adorn'd with native hues
You lately deck'd the vale,
Sipp'd the pure spirit of the dews,
And wanton'd in the gale.
How wither'd now, and how forlorn,
Of beauty dispossest!
How alter'd from the rose this morn
In glowing colors drest!
Say, soon shall Time, relentless power,
Extend his withering arm,
And rudely pluck that short-lived flower
That lends to her its charm.
Then bid the maid attention give
To meliorate the heart,
To gain those lovelier charms that live
When beauty may depart.
And say to her though Time unkind
From her that flower may sever
The nobler beauties of the mind
Shall bloom and live forever.
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sent to a young lady with a withered rose pinned upon the paper.
Go, drooping flower, to Laura go,
And to the fair one say
That Beauty boasts a trasient glow
And blooms but to decay.
Tell her, adorn'd with native hues
You lately deck'd the vale,
Sipp'd the pure spirit of the dews,
And wanton'd in the gale.
How wither'd now, and how forlorn,
Of beauty dispossest!
How alter'd from the rose this morn
In glowing colors drest!
Say, soon shall Time, relentless power,
Extend his withering arm,
And rudely pluck that short-lived flower
That lends to her its charm.
Then bid the maid attention give
To meliorate the heart,
To gain those lovelier charms that live
When beauty may depart.
And say to her though Time unkind
From her that flower may sever
The nobler beauties of the mind
Shall bloom and live forever.