Violets! - deep-blue violets! April's loveliest coronets! There are no flowers grow in the vale, Kiss'd by the dew, wooed by the gale, - None by the dew of the twilight wet, So sweet as the deep-blue violet! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Violets! - deep-blue violets! April's loveliest coronets! There are no flowers grow in the vale, Kiss'd by the dew, wooed by the gale, - None by the dew of the twilight wet, So sweet as the deep-blue violet!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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