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SONG by ALFRED AUSTIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: GO TALK TO HER, SWEET FLOWER
Last Line: KEEP YOU, SWEET FLOWER, ALIVE.
Subject(s): LOVE; FLOWERS;
I.

Go talk to her, sweet flower,
To whom I fain would talk;
Tell her I hour by hour
Pine on my own poor stalk.

II.

Tell her that I should live
Not quite so sore distressed,
If she to you would give
A throne upon her breast.

III.

Tell her that should she hie
To my parched plot to see
If I be dead, that I
No more should withered be.

IV.

If I were dead, her feet
My spirit would revive,
As may her bosom sweet
Keep you, sweet flower, alive.



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