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"Bring Flowers" by Mrs. Felicia Hemans

lynncinnamon
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Bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the bride to wear?

They were born to blush in her shining hair,

She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth;

She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth;

Her place is now by another's side--

Bring Flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!




 
 
 

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