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ON A FADED ROSE. 

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Behold that fading fragrant rose,
 So late the garden's blooming pride,
Shedding around its silken clothes,
 Which late with fairest beauty vied.

How true an emblem of our life,
 So gay in youth, so frail and fair,
It tells mankind a simple truth,
 That they too must for age prepare;