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FLOWERS

               O poet! above all men blest,
               Take heed that thus thou store them;
               Love, Hope, and Faith shall ever rest,
               Sweet birds (upon how sweet a nest!)
               Watchfully brooding o'er them.
               And from those flowers of Paradise
               Scatter thou many a blessed seed,
               Wherefrom an offspring may arise
               To cheer the hearts and light the eyes
               Of after-voyagers in their need.
               They shall not fall on stony ground,
               But, yielding all their hundred-fold,
               Shall shed a peacefulness around,
               Whose strengthening joy may not be told!
               So shall thy name be blest of all,
               And thy remembrance never die;
               For of that seed shall surely fall
               In the fair garden of Eternity,
               Exult then m the nobleness
               Of this thy work so holy,
               Yet be not thou one jot the less
               Humble and meek and lowly,
               But let throe exultation be
               The reverence of a bended knee;
               And by thy life a poem write,
               Built strongly day by day—
               on the rock of Truth and Right
               Its deep foundations lay.