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ODE.



ODE

TO THE POPPY.





WRITTEN BY A DECEASED FRIEND.


NOT for the promise of the labour'd field,
Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,
        I bend at Ceres' shrine;
For dull, to human eyes, appear
The golden glories of the year,
        A far more melancholy worship's mine,