Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A THREEFOLD TRIBUTE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS


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A THREEFOLD TRIBUTE, by                    
First Line: To tenderest affection
Last Line: With ripe luxuriance soon.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Music & Musicians; Summer


TO tenderest affection
This Music owes its birth:
Two flowers inspired reflection
With their surrounding earth:
They bring a triune token
To tell of love unbroken,
And longings which unspoken
Might fail of guardian worth.

Thy lily pure, disdaining
Dark's amorous advance,
Shrinks up as tho' retaining
The Sun's impassioned glance:
Let Goodness only sue thee,
And with his beauty woo thee,
So Wrong, if he pursue thee,
Shall win no countenance!

The violet, who breezes
Lets fondly o'er her play,
From the rude blast that freezes
Turns a shy face away:
Be thou as one all tender
When loving signs befriend her,
But who no rough offender
Deigns even to survey!

A flower-bespangled garden,
The Paradise of June,
All blossomless will harden
'Neath March's icy moon:
Thy heart be frigid never!
Bright Summer haunt it ever,
And Love crown each endeavour
With ripe luxuriance soon.





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