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FLOWER-COURTSHIP.
I brought my Love a posy well composed
To speak for me in words she could not doubt:
Sweet basil, box, and broom,
And cedar, and the bloom
Of red chrysanthemum;
And in my left hand, as of choice kept out,
A marigold, half closed.
To speak for me in words she could not doubt:
Sweet basil, box, and broom,
And cedar, and the bloom
Of red chrysanthemum;
And in my left hand, as of choice kept out,
A marigold, half closed.
My posy well accepted then by her,
The marigold she took and smiling threw
Where the tall ox-eyes stand;
Then from her bosom's band
Unloosed with lingering hand
A single aster,—but with impulse new
Pluck'd for me lavender.
The marigold she took and smiling threw
Where the tall ox-eyes stand;
Then from her bosom's band
Unloosed with lingering hand
A single aster,—but with impulse new
Pluck'd for me lavender.
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