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AN APRIL VIOLET by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "UNDER THE LARCH, WITH ITS TASSELS WET"
Last Line: ONLY AN APRIL VIOLET
Subject(s): DEATH;FLOWERS;VIOLETS; "DEAD, THE;"
UNDER the larch, with its tassels wet,
While the early sunbeams lingered yet,
In the rosy dawn my love I met.

Under the larch, when the sun was set,
He came with an April violet:
Forty years—and I have it yet.

Out of life, with its fond regret,
What have love and memory yet?
Only an April violet.



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