How happily, how happily, the flowers die away!
Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.


The Selected Literary Works, Prose and Verse, of Mrs. Caroline Southey: Embracing the Birth-day, Solitary Hours, The Ladey's Brydalle, Our Old Clock, The Smuggler, Miscellaneous Poems (1851 edition)


How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.