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 Violet! sweet violet!
 Thine eyes are full of tears;
  Are they wet
   Even yet
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 Violet! sweet violet!
 Thine eyes are full of tears;
  Are they wet
   Even yet
    With the thought of other years? 
 Steals timidly away,
 Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.  
 Steals timidly away,
 Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. 
 And shade the violets,
 That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.  
 And shade the violets,
 That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. 
 The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye,
 To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.  
 The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye,
 To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. 
 A vi'let on the meadow grew,
 That no one saw, that no one knew,
  It was a read more 
 A vi'let on the meadow grew,
 That no one saw, that no one knew,
  It was a modest flower.
   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--
    Light footed, pretty and so gay;
     That way she came,
      Softly warbling forth her lay. 
 The violets prattle and titter,
 And gaze on the stars high above.  
 The violets prattle and titter,
 And gaze on the stars high above. 
 Hath the pearl less whiteness
 Because of its birth?
  Hath the violet less brightness
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 Hath the pearl less whiteness
 Because of its birth?
  Hath the violet less brightness
   For growing near earth? 
 A blossom of returning light,
 An April flower of sun and dew;
  The earth and sky, the read more 
 A blossom of returning light,
 An April flower of sun and dew;
  The earth and sky, the day and night
   Are melted in her depth of blue!