AUTUMN VIOLETS. SARAH DOUDNEY. When swallows have departed, And wreaths of crimson leaves Are twined around the empty nests Beneath the cottage eaves; When pallid sunlights faintly shine Where fading roses glow. How sweetly in the year's decline The autumn violets blow ! **• When all the corn is garnered, And all the work is done, God gives us back the early joys That bloomed when life begun ; Nor shall we mourn the gayer flowers That perished long ago, If in these later day of ours The autumn violets blow. — Leisure Hour,
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1640, 25 December 1874, Page 473
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90Page 473 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1640, 25 December 1874, Page 473
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