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WINTER VIOLETS.

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Lines laid on the Bier of Queen Victoria at Osborne, by permission of His Majesty the King.

Here are sad flowers, with wintry weeping wet,
Dews of the dark that drench the violet.
Thus over Her, whom death yet more endears,
Nature and Man together blend their tears.
January 25, 1901.