With A Cup And Saucer

( scnd my love a fragüe china cup. With purple violeta painted round the rim. Empty it is, but swuet thoughts ii.l it up And peep like tricksy clves abovo tho rim. Upon a saucer fashioned like a hcart Of palest tint my dainty cnp ia set. Dear emblem, tsymbollzing life's better part- How can she look tipon it and forget? The charm I drop within the cup 3 such That every draft a tender thought will bring;. Thecrinklcd leaveswill brightenat hertonch, The ftowers will know a mystic blossoming. Poor pictured iolets that never grew In ferny nooka nor feit a summer 6howerl To hearte that hate the false and love the truo There is a sadness in a painted flower. Bat go, my gift, and as my lady sips Her creainy cocoa or her f ragrant toa Thy happy rim may pcrchance touch her lips And bring to her a fleeting thought of mei