<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348647" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lillian</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. PROEM.<br>This was a sweet white wildwood violet<br>I found among the painted slips that grow<br>Where, under hot-house glass, the flowers forget<br>How the sun shines, and how the cool winds blow.<br> <br>The violet took the orchid's colouring,<br>Tricked out its dainty fairness like the rest;<br>Yet still its breath was as the breath of Spring,<br>And the wood's heart was wild within its breast.<br> <br>The orchid mostly is the flower I love,<br>And violets, the mere violets of the wood,<br>For all their sweetness, have not power to move<br>The curiosity that rules my blood.<br> <br>Yet here, in this spice-laden atmosphere,<br>Where only nature is a thing unreal,<br>I found in just a violet, planted here,<br>The artificial flower of my ideal.<br>II. CHRISTMAS-EVE.<br>April-hearted Lilian,<br>April with our love began;<br>Winter comes, but April violets<br>Linger on.<br> <br>So the fancy of an hour,<br>Born of sudden sun and shower,<br>Braves the winter, and has blossomed<br>Into flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Symons">Arthur Symons</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348647" data-title="Lillian de Arthur Symons" data-description="I. PROEM. This was a sweet white wildwood violet I found among the painted slips that grow Where, under hot-house glass, the flowers forget How the sun shines, and how the cool winds blow. The violet took the orchid's colouring, Tricked out its ..."></div> </div> </div>

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