...and the sluggish brook; The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beanty gay, Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his arrav. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee -why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them...

...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-breast come, his plumes to cool And court the flower that cheapens his array. JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. Jack-in-the-pulpit is preaching to-day That's what the birds and the children say,...

...lines of Emerson to his recluse Rhodora, and which are equally applicable to the twilight primrose : " Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for...

...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here...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...

...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might...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...

...brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here'might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the...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...

...petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red bird cqrne his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens...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 then...

...in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And c*urt the flower that cheapens liis array. Rhodora 1 if the sages ask thee why This cliarm is wasted...

...Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn, About the lonely moated grange." — Tennyson. " Bhodora ! 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." — Emerson....

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