Violets
T DON'T want -*■ Tho hothouse kind, Characterlessly Refined, Self-assured. Sophisticated, Forced and ultraFoliated. ' Give me violets From a wood, In a peaked - And purple hood, Cleanly scented. Shyly proud, Open-eyed And velvet-browed. Give mo blooms Like these, I cry (Patches from The twilight sky!)\ Free of any < ' Florist's label, Pinned to something sleek In sable. —Ethel Jacobson, in The Saturday Evening Post.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23601, 9 March 1940, Page 12 (Supplement)
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63Violets New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23601, 9 March 1940, Page 12 (Supplement)
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