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Winter Violets

by Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin

Here are sad flowers, with wintry weeping wet,
Dews of the dark that drench the violet.
Thus over Her, whom death yet more endears,
Nature and Man together blend their tears.




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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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