A Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1830/Rose and Laurel Leaf
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This poem is transcribed from Landon. Poems from the Annuals, by F. J. Sypher
THE ROSE AND LAUREL LEAF
Oú va
Et la feuille de la rose, et la feuille du laurier?
On thy path of music whither
May, sweet wind, thy wandering be?
And say, what dost thou bring hither
On thy azure wings with thee?
My wild course has been where, flowing,
The silver fountains sing;
From the roses by them growing
Floats a rose-leaf on my wing.
"Through a grove of laurel breathing
Came a young poet’s song;
From the green boughs round him wreathing
I bore a leaf along."
For that leaf of crimson shining,
That one on shadeless hue—
What art thou, sweet wind, designing?
With those leaves what wilt thou do?
"The red leaf of the lover,
That green leaf of the brave—
The fair earth I bear them over,
To leave them on the grave."