Thursday, January 1, 2004

On Pressing Some Flowers Comments

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So, they are dead! Love! when they passed
From thee to me, our fingers met;
O withered darlings of the May!
I feel those fairy fingers yet.
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Henry Timrod
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Susan Williams 17 December 2015

It's really a charming and lovely little poem about an activity that probably started the day after they published books for the first time. Before that, I think the lovers would have found something to press those tokens in- -clay tablets perhaps? ! !

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