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THE YELLOW PANSY
“There's pansies—that's for thoughts.”
Shakespeare
Winter had swooped, a lean and hungry hawk;
It seemed an age since summer was entombed;
Yet in our garden, on its frozen stalk,
A yellow pansy bloomed.
It seemed an age since summer was entombed;
Yet in our garden, on its frozen stalk,
A yellow pansy bloomed.
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'Twas Nature saying by trope and metaphor:
“Behold, when empire against empire strives,
Though all else perish, ground 'neath iron war,
The golden thought survives.”
“Behold, when empire against empire strives,
Though all else perish, ground 'neath iron war,
The golden thought survives.”
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