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Poems

By Edward Quillinan. With a Memoir by William Johnston

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III. Near Schaffhausen.

HER FAVOURITE FLOWERS.

I cannot bear those brilliant flowers
So blue among the corn,
With which she used in festal hours
Her tresses to adorn.
I cannot bear that they should still
Be beautiful and gay,
When she who loved their bloom so well
Has past in hers away.