Do you have Toru dutt's a mon pere?

CONCLUDING Sonnet.

À MON PÈRE.

The flowers look loveliest in their native soil

Amid their kindred branches; plucked, they fade,

And lose the colours Nature on them laid,

Though bound in garlands with assiduous toil.

Pleasant it was, afar from all turmoil,

To wander through the valley, now in shade

And now in sunshine, where these blossoms made

A Paradise, and gather in my spoil.

But better than myself no man can know

How tarnished have become their tender hues

E'en in the gathering, and how dimmed their glow!

Wouldst thou again new life in them infuse,

Thou who hast seen them where they brightly blow?

Ask Memory. She shall help my stammering Muse.