All of the flowers in the chain, dear?

Did they all grow up with you,

Or some of them just in your brain, dear?

Count true the white marguerite,

Pansies—as false I must own them.

Life, it may well be, my sweet,

Had not so fair to you grown them.

E. S. C.

Mosman’s Bay
Sydney

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