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DEDICATION OF A POEM by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "SWEET, ON THE DAISIES OF YOUR ENGLISH GRAVE"
Last Line: "THAT HE WHO BRINGS THEM LAYS HIS HEART, TOO, HERE"
Subject(s): GRAVES;INDIA; TOMBS;TOMBSTONES;
SWEET, on the daisies of your English grave
I lay this little wreath of Indian flowers,
Fragrant for me because the scent they have
Breathes of the memory of our wedded hours;

For others scentless; and for you, in heaven,
To pale and faded, dear dead wife! to wear,
Save that they mean—what makes all fault forgiven—
That he who brings them lays his heart, too, there



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