<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hast Thou A Song For A Flower.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HAST thou a song for a flower,<br>Such as, if breathed in its ear,<br>Would waken in beauty's own bower<br>The spirit most fit to be there?<br>Then, minstrel, I challenge thy power--<br>Such song, if thou hast, sing it here!--<br>Here, where the breeze o'erwearied,<br>With his travel o'er ocean creeps,<br>And on the green leaf by her lattice,<br>Sinks languidly down and sleeps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For her the sweet music thou bringest<br>Must in a true spirit be wrought,<br>And the passion of mine thou singest<br>Must be pure as the child's first thought.<br>If none such within thee springest,<br>Away, for thy presence is naught.<br>Far better the breeze, at waking,<br>Should tell her that hopeless I come,<br>With itself, to the leaf at her lattice,<br>And laid me down, dreaming but dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Gilmore+Simms">William Gilmore Simms</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538320" data-title="Hast Thou A Song For A Flower. de William Gilmore Simms" data-description="I. HAST thou a song for a flower, Such as, if breathed in its ear, Would waken in beauty's own bower The spirit most fit to be there? Then, minstrel, I challenge thy power-- Such song, if thou hast, sing it here!-- Here, where the breeze o'erwear..."></div> </div> </div>

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