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To A Lady - With Flowers From A Roman Wall

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Take these flowers which, purple waving,     On the ruin'd rampart grew,     Where, the sons of freedom braving,     Rome's imperial standards flew.     Warriors from the breach of danger     Pluck no longer laurels there;     They but yield the passing stranger     Wild-flower wreaths the Beauty's hair.

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