THE VIOLET.
Sweet flower, transplanted from tbe world above To nestle in the wild grass at our feet— A messenger from God, of His great love, — A tiny breath of life, yet ah 1 how sweet. Thy ohaliced wealth the angels claimed as their own, And breathed the air thy fragrant presence blest. And now, amid tbe bleakness earth embowers.
!1 hy being speaks of those mild wonders left. What fairy neßtled in thy heart, sweet flower,
In the long ages past, when first you came, S'er ruthless fingers bent|thy slender utalks, Or strange lips lightly breathed the heavenborn name ? What tremor filled the violet of thy leaves,
When first them woke, upon our quickening earth ? Did the tried way of recompense seem dear, When questioned by the harsh, veiled laws of birth? Unielfieh friendship's heavenbora lymbol thou, Wherein celestial wisdom heaven remirrored doth lie, In the deep cup of ohlll probation, thou A breath of heaven, partaker of adversity. — Muta,
Otautau, August 10.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 37
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164THE VIOLET. Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 37
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