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 Flowers are words
 Which even a babe may understand.  
 Flowers are words
 Which even a babe may understand. 
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
 Who that has loved knows not the tender tale
 Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?
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 Who that has loved knows not the tender tale
 Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?
   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, 
 Now blooms the lily by the bank,
 The primrose down the brae;
  The hawthorn's budding in the read more 
 Now blooms the lily by the bank,
 The primrose down the brae;
  The hawthorn's budding in the glen,
   The milkwhite is the slae. 
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.
 The happy bells shall ring Marguerite;
 The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;
  You smile but you shall read more 
 The happy bells shall ring Marguerite;
 The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;
  You smile but you shall wear
   Orange blossoms in your hair, Marguerite. 
 And lilies are still lilies, pulled
 By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.  
 And lilies are still lilies, pulled
 By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.