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Forget-me-not! How Nature rears
Emblems of human hopes and fears
Under our feet! See where they grow,
The tiny flowers that lovers know.
And fame of old romance endears.
Emblems of human hopes and fears
Under our feet! See where they grow,
The tiny flowers that lovers know.
And fame of old romance endears.
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We part to-night! the moment nears;
Here is a blossom dewed with tears.
Reject it,—well! Accept, and so
Forget me not!
Here is a blossom dewed with tears.
Reject it,—well! Accept, and so
Forget me not!
Either let fate produce the shears,
And nip the bond that disappears;
Forget me now before you go,—
Or take the gift my hands bestow,
And then, through all the length of years
Forget me not!
And nip the bond that disappears;
Forget me now before you go,—
Or take the gift my hands bestow,
And then, through all the length of years
Forget me not!
May 1878.
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