One
day when browsing through printed page
In musty volume- of noble age
Long prest upon the pages there-
I came upon a flower fair;
It
lay flattened, faded, fragile, pale,
That bloom once plucked from sunlit dale;
How many years had come and gone-
Since on its petals soft sun shone?
How
came to be so treasured there?
Perhaps had graced a lovers hair-
And stored to precious memory hold;
Relived when nights were long and cold.
Perchance
the first fresh flower of spring-
That, sprang from winters storms did bring
A happy hope of life to come-
Of joys that gleam when trials are done.
Couldst
been glad gift of little one,
With infant joy in field and sun;
Carried crushed in chubby hand-
To give to Mom- like something grand!
This
tiny whisp of flattened straw
With merry memories did sadness thaw;
When held perhaps in age worn hand,
By one grown tired on lifes long strand
I
wished
they
could
beside me stand,
As
I pondered it there
in my hand;
The lives this bloom did somehow touch-
Oh, little things can mean so much!