Then as I climb'd the mountains o'er, I saw the village steeple rise,- I reach'd the hamlet :-all was gay; I met a wedding,-stepp'd aside; It pass'd;-my HANNAH was the bride! There is a grief that cannot feel; It leaves a wound that will not heal; -My heart grew cold,—it felt not then; 1 A FIELD FLOWER ON FINDING ONE IN FULL BLOOM, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1803. THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field Race after race their honours yield, But this small flower, to Nature dear, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, It smiles upon the lap of May, To sultry August spreads its charms, The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale. But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation's bed; And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, 'Tis FLORA's page:in every place, In every season, fresh and fair, It opens with perennial grace, And blossoms every where. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise; The Rose has but a summer-reign, The DAISY never dies. G 2 THE SNOW-DROP. WINTER, retire! Thy reign is past; Hoary Sire! Yield the sceptre of thy sway, Sound thy trumpet in the blast, And call thy storms away; Wherefore do thy wheels delay? Mount the chariot of thine ire, And quit the realms of day; On thy state Whirlwinds wait; And blood-shot meteors lend thee light; |