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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIOLETS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, lovely, lovely violets
Last Line: They told our fortunes true.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets
First Line: Oh, lovely, lovely violets
Last Line: They told our fortunes true.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets
Oh, lovely, lovely violets,
So dainty and so blue,
So modest yet so beautiful,
Whene'er I look at you
I mind me of a gone-by day,
When in a woodland glade,
Beside a purling brooklet,
Beneath an elm's shade.
We sat and plucked the violets
That blossomed by us there,
Shedding their sweet perfume
Upon the woodland air.
We made sweet nose-gays of their blooms,
We tried our fortunes, too,
With them, though long ago that's been,
They told our fortunes true.
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