Fables of FLOWERS — XV

“May civil feuds and ranc’rous hate
“From hence be banish’d far;
“Foul is that strife, where friends contest,
“And wage inhuman war.

XVI.

“Then to this solemn truth give ear;
“Where trifles thus are priz’d,
“If two for victory contend;
“They both will be despis’d.”