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Anemones.

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If I should wish hereafter that your heart     Should beat with one fair memory of me,     May Time's hard hand our footsteps guide apart,     But lead yours back one spring-time to the Lea.     Nodding Anemones,     Wind-flowers pale,     Bloom with the budding trees,     Dancing to every breeze,     Mock hopes more fair than these,     Love's vows more frail.     For then the grass we loved grows green again,     And April showers make April woods more fair;     But no sun dries the sad salt tears of pain,     Or brings back summer lights on faded hair,     Nodding Anemones,     Wind-flowers pale,     Bloom with the budding trees,     Dancing to every breeze,     Mock hopes more frail than these,     Love's vows more frail.

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