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...please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, An;, court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted...

...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals fallen in the pool Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Why thou...

...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook : The purple petals, fallen in the pool, marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for...

...faith, and a sympathy with nature so intimate and noble, as these that close this little poem : — " Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou...

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...might the red-bird come his plumea to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! it the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made lor seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuFe for being: Why tljou...

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