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First Line: Lilies, lilies not for me
Last Line: But forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Poppies


LILIES, lilies not for me,
Flowers of the pure and saintly --
I have seen in holy places
Where the incense rises faintly,
And the priest the chalice raises,
Lilies in the altar vases,
Not for me.

Leave untouched each garden tree,
Kings and queens of flower-land.
When the summer evening closes,
Lovers may-be hand in hand
There will seek for crimson roses,
There will bind their wreaths and posies Merrily.

From the corn-fields where we met
Pluck me poppies white and red;
Bind them round my weary brain,
Strew them on my narrow bed,
Numbing all the ache and pain. --
I shall sleep nor wake again,
But forget.





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