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17 Literary Gazette, 14th May, 1825, Page 316

ORIGINAL POETRY. SONG. I have a summer gift, A sunny gift for thee: See this white vase, where blooms A beautiful rose tree.

And on its crimson leaves Your heart must moralize, For love a lesson takes Of every leaf that dies.

First you will prize the gift In all its scented pride; Its newness then will pass, And 'twill be flung aside.

Then autumn rains will stain Its bloom with a dark token; The plant will perish then, And the white vase be broken.

Will not Love's tale be told In the fate of the rose tree! Such was at first your love, Then your neglect of me.L. E. L.