text:  A blossom on a laurel tree--a cloudlet on the sky Borne by the breeze--a panorama shifting on the eye; A zig-zag lightning-flash amid the elemental strife-- Yea! each and all are emblems of man's transitory life! Brightness dawns on us at our birth--the dear small world of home A tiny paradise from which our wishes never roam Till boyhood's widening circle brings its myriad hopes and fears The guileless faith that never doubts--the friendship that endears