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ASSIGNATION.
PIMPERNEL.
Our bonny Kate bound her golden hair,With a violet wreath for the village-fair,
And tripped with the grace of a gay gazelle,
Where blushes the delicate pimpernel;
For a prophetess true is that lowly flower,
She warns us ever of tempest hour,
When the rain-cloud shadows her humble head,
She folds her petals of brilliant red,
And keeps her sunny heart warm within,
Like a fair girl shutting out grief and sin.
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