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Buy my English posies! You that will not turn— Buy my hot-wood clematis, Buy a frond o’ fern Gather’d where the Erskine leaps Down the road to Lorne— Buy my Christmas creeper And I’ll say where you were born! West away from Melbourne dust holidays begin— They that mock at Paradise woo at Cora Lynn— Through the great South Otway gums sings the great South Main— Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again! Buy my English posies! Ye that have your own Buy them for a brother’s sake Overseas, alone. Weed ye trample underfoot Floods his heart abrim— Bird ye never heeded, O, she calls his dead to him! Far and far our homes are set round the Seven Seas; Woe for us if we forget, we that hold by these! Unto each his mother-beach, bloom and bird and land— Masters of the Seven Seas, O, love and understand!
Buy my English posies! You that will not turn— Buy my hot-wood clematis, Buy a frond o’ fern Gather’d where the Erskine leaps Down the road to Lorne— Buy my Christmas creeper And I’ll say where you were born! West away from Melbourne dust holidays begin— They that mock at Paradise woo at Cora Lynn— Through the great South Otway gums sings the great South Main— Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again! Buy my English posies! Ye that have your own Buy them for a brother’s sake Overseas, alone. Weed ye trample underfoot Floods his heart abrim— Bird ye never heeded, O, she calls his dead to him! Far and far our homes are set round the Seven Seas; Woe for us if we forget, we that hold by these! Unto each his mother-beach, bloom and bird and land— Masters of the Seven Seas, O, love and understand!
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Rudyard Kipling (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 7 · printed citation: Rudyard Kipling (The Flowers). · compiler notes excluded
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