7. She passed the day in much disgrace,
And wished that she might change her place,
And be at home again:
She sighed for her own mossy bed,
Where she might rest her aching head;
But now to wish were vain.
8. Next morn, the housemaid, passing by,
Just chanced the little flower to spy,
And then, without delay,
She rudely seized its tender stalk,
And threw it in the gravel walk,
And left it to decay.
9. And thus it mourned,--"O silly flower,
To wish to leave its native bower!
Was it for this I sighed?
O, had I more contented been,
And lived unnoticed and unseen,
I might not thus have died!"
10. Nor let this lesson be forgot:
Remain contented with the lot
That Providence decrees.
Contentment is a richer gem
Than sparkles in a diadem,
And gives us greater ease.
LESSON XLIX.
_Captain John Smith._--JUVENILE MISCELLANY.
1. The adventures of this singular man are so various, and so very
extraordinary, that the detail of them seems more like romance than true
history.
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