by Marguerite Merington (1857 - 1951)

To one who offered pansies
Language: English 
"Here's pansies, that's for thoughts!"
Ah, no. My thoughts are thine!
Hearts-ease thou never could'st bestow,
Nor I call mine.

Then keep the pansies. 
Meet for thee their glowing hue.
Remembrance, rosemary for me,
And sprigs of rue.

Note for the Templeton-Strong set: The printed scores contain errors of punctuation not corrected against the composer’s original manuscript. See https://patrinum.ch/record/242915?ln=en&v=pdf.


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