"I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head."

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Source : Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

Phoebe Cary

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