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"An Orchid" 

Oh beauteous flower
Angel of the floral kind
How shall I praise thee?
Sustained on thy arbor stem
Thou inbibs't the air
And dost radiate it to a hue;
Breath of my love
A poets ecstasy
I [[strikethrough]] saw [[/strikethrough]] see thee as man
First saw thee
A cool light in all the wood
Displayed in thy element
Born without a seed
Symbol of immortality.

Albert P. Ryder