| HOW NEAR alike the vernal seasons are
Unto the youthful bloom of early life. Each glowing sun is greeted with a smile; Each wind is welcomed as a boon to health; Each shower is like a troubled wave that flits Across the restless brain which seeks to know The whole of life within a narrow span. The budding of each flower as the hopes That swell the bosom with a love to share The joys of earth in all her proudest claims. The blossoms of the velvet, smiling rose Can sweetly represent the glowing cheeks, Or e'en the ruby lips so often kissed By ___ the perfect flowers they represent, Whose perfume thus inhaled, itself imparts A sense of health unto those finer parts, That permeates and woos the inner mind Into sweet dreamy thoughts of perfect bliss. __James A. DeMoss |
Kansas Zephyrs
James A. DeMoss
(Thayer, Kansas: ___. 1892)
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