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Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - XXIX - The Lent Lily

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'Tis spring; come out to ramble     The hilly brakes around,     For under thorn and bramble     About the hollow ground     The primroses are found.     And there's the windflower chilly     With all the winds at play,     And there's the Lenten lily     That has not long to stay     And dies on Easter day.     And since till girls go maying     You find the primrose still,     And find the windflower playing     With every wind at will,     But not the daffodil,     Bring baskets now, and sally     Upon the spring's array,     And bear from hill and valley     The daffodil away     That dies on Easter day.

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