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Flowers

O poet! above all men blest,

Take heed that thus thou store them;

Love,

Hope, and Faith shall ever rest,

Sweet birds (upon how sweet a nest!)Watchfully brooding o'er them.

And from those flowers of

Scatter thou many a blessed seed,

Wherefrom an offspring may

To cheer the hearts and light the

Of after-voyagers in their need.

They shall not fall on stony ground,

But, yielding all their hundred-fold,

Shall shed a peacefulness around,

Whose strengthening joy may not be told!

So shall thy name be blest of all,

And thy remembrance never die;

For of that seed shall surely

In the fair garden of Eternity,

Exult then m the

Of this thy work so holy,

Yet be not thou one jot the

Humble and meek and lowly,

But let throe exultation

The reverence of a bended knee;

And by thy life a poem write,

Built strongly day by day—on the rock of Truth and

Its deep foundations lay.

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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell (/ˈloʊəl/; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associat…

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