A Flower in a Book
A WITHERED flower shall raise
A ghost of vanished days;
From crumbled leaves a rose,
All fragrant-souled, shall rise
Within the heart and eyes
Of one who, dreaming, knows
The dust that was a rose!
A ghost of vanished days;
From crumbled leaves a rose,
All fragrant-souled, shall rise
Within the heart and eyes
Of one who, dreaming, knows
The dust that was a rose!
J. J. Piatt.