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Updated: June 21, 2025
Sweet songstress! never may they move But with such sounds to soothe the ear, And melt the yielding heart to love! May sorrow never bid them pour From the torn heart one suffering sigh, But be thy life a fragrant flow'r, Blooming beneath a cloudless sky. Curious Method of raising Hay. Lucien Bonaparte's Hôtel. Opera. Consular Box. Madame Bonaparte's Box. Feydeau Theatre. Belle Vue. Versailles.
"This flow'r with sweet-brier join'd shall thee adorn, Sweet Jessie, fairest 'mid ten thousand fair! But guard thy gentle bosom from the thorn, Which, tho' conceal'd, the sweet-brier still must bear. "And place not Love, tho' idle, in thy breast, Tho' bright its hues, it boasts no other charm So may thy future days be ever blest, And friendship's calmer joys thy bosom warm !"
Wilt thou kindly let them be Given ere death be-dews my brow? Wait not, give them to me now. While in life's eventful day Tried, and weary grows the way, When in dark and lonely hour, Give me then the cheering flow'r. Hast thou kind words to impart, Words that lift the fainting heart? Speak ere Death's hand on me lay; Speak those kind words now today.
"Then through thy fields shall scarlet reptiles stray, And rapine and pollution mark their way; Their hungry swarms the peaceful vale shall fright, Still fierce to threaten, still afraid to fight; The teeming year's whole product shall devour, Insatiate pluck the fruit, and crop the flow'r; Shall glutton on the industrious peasants' spoil, Rob without fear, and fatten without toil."
But, at the sweet and silent ev'ning hour, When clos'd in sleep is ev'ry languid flow'r, Thou lov'st to sport upon the twilight air, Mocking the eye, that would thy course pursue, In many a wanton-round, elastic, gay, Thou flit'st athwart the pensive wand'rer's way, As his lone footsteps print the mountain-dew.
Down yonder glade two lovers steal, to shun the fairy-queen, Who frowns upon their plighted vows, and jealous is of me, That yester-eve I lighted them, along the dewy green, To seek the purple flow'r, whose juice from all her spells can free.
Nine days he feasted him, nine oxen slew. Why pray, is the number nine the most perfect? Because it is the square of the first odd number, and unevenly odd since it is divided into three triads, of which again each is divided into three units. With these came fifty ships; and in each Were sixscore youths, Boeotia's noblest flow'r. They were fifty men.
For as the grass, soon as the sun doth rise, Is scorch'd by reason of the heat, and dies; Its flow'r fades, and it retains no more The beauteous comeliness it had before, So fades the rich man, maugre all his store. The man is blest that doth endure temptation For when he's try'd, the crown of God's salvation, The which the Lord hath promised to give To them that love him, that man shall receive.
"Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed". All sorts of insidious consequences follow secretly in the train of innocent-seeming acts; the value of following a given impulse is complicated in many ways of which the impulse itself does not inform us. We are the frequent victims of a sort of inward mirage, and have to learn to discount our hopes and fears.
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