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The Little Fet Plant

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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A florist, a sweet little blossom espied, Whieh bloomed like its ancestor by the roadside, lts sweetnees was simple, ts colors were few, Yet tbe Wossoni looked fair iu the spot where I ' ! ' it greijï. The florist beheld it, and cried "I'll enchant The botanical world with a sight of this plant; lis leaves shall ba sbeltered and carefully nursed, It shall charm all tli3 world, though I meet with it íirst Under a hedge.;; He carried it home to his hot-house with care, And he said : "Though tho MWWí -Hics are there, II y little pet plant, whon I've nourished lts stem, In tint and in frajiiance shall imítate them, Thoiigk none shall suspect lïom the roadside it came; Rhodum-sidum Til cali it- a beautiful name- Wliile botanista look through their glasses and view lts beauties. they'll never imagine il grew _ Undei a hedge." Tliis little pet plant, when it shook of the dirt Dl its own native ditcli, began to be pert, Ai:d tossed its small head, tbr perceiviug that none But exotics were round it, it tho't itself one. As a wild tiovér all would have owned it was fair, And praised it tlio' handsomer blossoms were there, But when it agsumas iiot-house airs, we see through The forced tint of its Jeaves, and suspect that it grew ynder a hedga. In the highways of life, oh ! how ïjiany there are Who, boing bom under sorae fortúnate star, Assisted by Beauty or Talent, grow rich, And bloöni in a Iiot-house instead of a ditch ; And while they disdaiu uot their own simple stem. Th,: donors they grasp may gain honors for tlieip, But when. íike the pet plací, such people grow pert, We soon trace them to their original dirt - ynder a hedge.

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Old News
Michigan Argus