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Title: My Flower-pot
Child's Picture Book

Author: Unknown

Release Date: May 21, 2008 [EBook #25553]

Language: English

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MY
FLOWER-POT.

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CONCORD, N. H.:
RUFUS MERRILL.

CHILD'S
PICTURE BOOK.

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CONCORD, N. H.:
RUFUS MERRILL.

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I love the flowers, the fragrant flowers!
They're fairy things to me;
They seem like angels sent to bless,
And teach of purity.

MY FLOWER-POT.

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FLOWERS.

There is beauty in flowers
When kissed by the showers
That fall in the bowers
Of gardens so fair,
When music is telling
In notes that are swelling,
And love is excelling,
Aloft in the air.

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Birds now are singing,
Deep valleys are ringing,
And harmony bringing
Content to the mind.
Flowers are caressing,
And sending a blessing
To all now confessing
To be to them kind.

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Minds soon are roving
To lands that are blooming
Afar from the glooming
Of woe and despair,
Saying, "Come to the bowers
Filled with rare flowers--
Nature's kind dowers,
Free as the air."

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Come, my love, and do not spurn
From a little flower to learn:
See the lily on the bed,
Hanging down its modest head;
While it scarcely can be seen,
Folded in its leaf of green.

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Yet we love the lily well,
For its sweet and pleasant smell,
And would rather call it ours
Than many other gayer flowers;
Pretty lilies seem to be
Emblems of humility.

'Tis not beauty that we prize,--
Like a summer flower i