Miscellaneous Poems.

MAN.

"Der Mensch glanzt eine zeitlang über die Erde dann verschwindet er und wird im grabe verborgen."

IN beauty's pride see yonder flower,
How bright it blooms to-day;

Yet ere to-morrow's dawning hour
"Twill fade, 'twill fade away.
Perhaps within its dewy breast

The canker worm hath been,

And though it outwardly seems blest,
Death lurks within unseen.

Go, see its leaves fall one by one,

Mark how it droops its head,

And ere its life hath scarce begun

'Tis numbered with the dead.

Now, in its melancholy fate,

A lesson you may see

A moral type of life's estate,

Sad emblem of mortality!

Just like the flower, see man to-day,
In beauty, strength, and pride,
Gay, joyous dreams around him play,
And Hope smiles by his side.

To-morrow comes, and o'er his head

A withering blight hath swept;

Both man and flower are with the dead, Unthought of, and unwept!