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A REFLECTION

ON THE FOREGOING ODE.

AND is this all? Can Reason do no more,

Than bid me shun the deep, and dread the shore?
Sweet moralist! afloat on life's rough sea,

The Christian has an art unknown to thee.
He holds no parley with unmanly fears;
Where Duty bids, he confidently steers,
Faces a thousand dangers at her call,

And, trusting in his God, surmounts them all.

THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

I.

THE nymph must lose her female friend,
If more admir'd than she-

But where will fierce contention end,
If flow'rs can disagree?

II.

Within the garden's peaceful scene

Appear'd two lovely foes, Aspiring to the rank of queen, The Lily and the Rose.

III.

The Rose soon redden'd into rage,
And, swelling with disdain,

Appeal'd to many a poet's page
To prove her right to reign.
IV.

The Lily's height bespoke command,
A fair imperial flow'r;

She seem'd design'd for Flora's hand,

The sceptre of her pow'r.

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THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

THIS CIVIL BICK RING AND DEBATE

THE CODDESS CHANC D TO HEAR.

AND PIAW TO SAVE ERE YET TOO LATE,

THE PRIDE OF THE PARTERRE.

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LONDON, PUBLISHED JUNE 1.1810, BYJOHN SHARPE,PICCADILLY.

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This civil bick'ring and debate

The goddess chanc'd to hear,
And flew to save, ere yet too late,
The pride of the parterre;
VI.

Yours is, she said, the nobler hue,
And yours the statelier mien;
And, till a third surpasses you,
Let each be deem'd a queen.

VII.

Thus, sooth'd and reconcil'd, each seeks

The fairest British fair.

The seat of empire is her cheeks,

They reign united there.

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