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The Alhambra and Other Poems

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

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Perfume

In love's delightful hours
We passed the mignonette
And plucked the blue-eyed flowers
That bade us Not Forget;
But now the blue-eyed flowers
We pass and we forget;
The scent of those dear hours
Comes back with mignonette!