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OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 29 by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: AS THOSE GREAT PETALS BURST ASUNDER THERE
Last Line: "AND NEVER ANOTHER BLOOM THAT TREE MAY BEAR."
Subject(s): FLOWERS; GARDENS & GARDENING; NATURE;
As those great petals burst asunder there
A wondrous fragrance on the breeze was fanned,
Solace unique of that unfriendly land
Wafted remote along the treasuring air.
But then, the old man said with trembling care,
A little raising his blue, withered hand,
"The flower droops straightway ere it doth expand,
And never another bloom that tree may bear."



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