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LINES ADDRESSED TO A WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM, PRESENTED TO THE WRITER, by                    
First Line: Fair gift of friendship, and her ever bright
Last Line: Thou bloom'st the fairest 'mid the frosts of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Winter


FAIR gift of friendship, and her ever bright
And faultless image! Welcome now thou art
In thy pure loveliness, thy robes of white
Speaking a moral to the feeling heart;
Unscathed by heat, by wintry blasts unmoved,
Thy strength thus tested, and thy charms improved.

Emblem of innocence, which fearless braves
Life's dreariest scenes, its rudest storm derides,
And floats as calmly on o'er troubled waves
As where the peaceful streamlet smoothly glides
Thou 'rt blooming now as beautiful and clear
As other blossoms do, when spring is here.

Symbol of hope, still banishing the gloom
Hung o'er the mind by stern December's reign!
Thou cheer'st the fancy by thy steady bloom
With thoughts of summer and the fertile plain,
Calling a thousand visions into play,
Of beauty redolent and bright as May.

Type of a true and holy love; the same
Through every scene that crowds life's varied page,
'Mid grief, 'mid gladness, spell of every dream,
Tender in youth, and strong in feeble age!
The peerless picture of a modest wife,
Thou bloom'st the fairest 'mid the frosts of life.





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