[Editor: This poem by Louisa Lawson was published in “The Lonely Crossing” and Other Poems (1905).]
The Message of the Flowers.
Flowers you gave me, fresh and bright,
Sweet as joy and pure as light;
Roses red and lilies white —
Love-born children of delight.
But they faded soon away,
For they ever seemed to say:
“In your life there is no day,
Love we not the twilight grey.”
And I know the flowers were slain
While upon my bosom lain,
By my sad tears’ salted rain
And hot sighs of ceaseless pain.
But the flowers red and white,
Left for me this message bright
Whispered softly in the night:
“Sad one, somewhere there is light.”
Source:
Louisa Lawson, “The Lonely Crossing” and Other Poems, Sydney: Dawn Office, [1905], p. 50
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