And from its whispering sedge

Bring me those flowers to cool my fever’d brow!

Then, as in Hope’s young days,

Track thou the antique maze

Of the rich garden to its grassy mound;

There is a lone white rose,

Shedding, in sudden snows,

Its faint leaves o’er the emerald turf around.

Well know’st thou that fair tree—

A murmur of the bee