Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By From Yu-Pe-Yas Lute (1874). Too Soon, So Fair, Fair LiliesAugusta Webster (18401894)
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To bloom is then to wane;
The folded bud has still
Tomorrow at its will;
Blown flowers can never blow again.
The sun that now is high
Will henceforth only sink
Towards the western brink;
Day that’s at prime begins to die.
For autumn tracks thee fast;
Lo, death-marks on the leaf!
Sweet summer, and my grief;
For summer come is summer past.
Some hours and thou art o’er.
Ah! death is part of birth:
Summer leaves not the earth,
But last year’s summer lives no more.”