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Poems

By F. B. Money-Coutts [i.e. Coutts-Nevill]
 

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To Her

Till thee I loved, my radiant Spring,
My heart was like a silent plot,
Where goodly flowers flourish not,
And brambles tear and nettles sting!
Now thorn and nettle in a ring
My garden guard from filching foes,
But in the midst the lily blows
And all thine herald thrushes sing.