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AUGUST, 1865 by CAROLINE CLIVE

First Line: FLOWERS FOR THY GRAVE! AND FIRST I BEAR
Last Line: TAKE COMFORT, FOR THOU TOO SHALT DIE.'
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;

FLOWERS for thy grave! and first I bear
The one whose name beseems the spot;
For me it breathes to thee the prayer,
Forget me not, forget me not!

Then Cistus, destined as thou art,
To perish in one day of bloom;
And Love that lies with bleeding heart,
Outstretch'd upon thy early tomb.

Immortals next, whose golden ray
Seems coloured by a dawning sky,
They tell me what thou art, and say --
'Take comfort, for thou too shalt die.'




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