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FLOWERS

PLUCKED BY A

TRAVELLER ON THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.

BY

CHARLES T. CONGDON.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for.us, and.a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

John Keats' Endymion.

BOSTON-LIBRARY

SOCIETY

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE W. LIGHT.

M DCCC XL.

KD 10948

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
MAR 5 1941

BHT YRABELI-MOTROS

ΤΟ

MY COLLEGE FRIENDS

THESE TRIFLES

ARE

DEDICATED.

"Could we contract the choice of nature's plenty Into one form, and that form to contain

All delicates, which the wanton sense

Would relish, or desire to invent; to please it,

The present were unworthy, for to purchase
The sacred league of friendship."

NOTICE.

THESE poems I have arranged in this volume in the order in which I wrote them. They have been some pleasure to me, and I would fain hope that others may find some pleasure in them, also. I expect and desire not fame; yet it is pleasant to me to know, that those who know me best and whom I love best, have expressed a desire to have them collected. To such I present the volume. I will not plead my youth in extenuation of its faults; because I think that some of the best and most beautiful thoughts of the mind, abide in the younger heart; and if the sentiments of a production be truthful, I envy not the mind of the man who can find fault with words and quarrel with tropes and metaphors. Be it "good, bad or indifferent," I cast this, but a crumb at best, upon the waters. The

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