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A Song Of Poppies

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I love red poppies! Imperial red poppies!      Sun-worshippers are they;     Gladly as trees live through a hundred summers      They live one little day.     I love red poppies! Impassioned scarlet poppies!      Ever their strange perfume     Seems like an essence brewed by fairy people      From an immortal bloom.     I love red poppies! Red, silken, swaying poppies!      Deep in their hearts they keep     A magic cure for woe - a draught of Lethe -      A lotus-gift of sleep.     I love red poppies! Soft silver-stemmed, red poppies,      That from the rain and sun     Gather a balm to heal some earth-born sorrow,      When their glad day is done.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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