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73

MAKING PANSIES

Three faces in a hood.”
Folk called the pansy so
Three hundred years ago.
Of course she understood!
Then, perching on my knee,
She drew her mother's head
To her own and mine, and said—
“That's mother, you, and me!”
And so it comes about
We three, for gladness sake,
Sometimes a pansy make
Before the gas goes out.