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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510980" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flowers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To our private taste, there is always something a little exotic,<br> almost artificial, in songs which, under an English aspect and dress,<br> are yet so manifestly the product of other skies. They affect us<br> like translations; the very fauna and flora are alien, remote;<br> the dog's-tooth violet is but an ill substitute for the rathe primrose,<br> nor can we ever believe that the wood-robin sings as sweetly in April<br> as the English thrush. -- THE ATHEN]AEUM.<br> <br> <br> <br> Buy my English posies!<br> Kent and Surrey may --<br> Violets of the Undercliff<br> Wet with Channel spray;<br> Cowslips from a Devon combe --<br> Midland furze afire --<br> Buy my English posies<br> And I'll sell your heart's desire!<br> <br> Buy my English posies!<br> You that scorn the May,<br> Won't you greet a friend from home<br> Half the world away?<br> Green against the draggled drift,<br> Faint and frail and first --<br> Buy my Northern blood-root<br> And I'll know where you were nursed:<br>Robin down the logging-road whistles, &quot;Come to me!&quot;<br>Spring has found the maple-grove, the sap is running free;<br>All the winds of Canada call the ploughing-rain.<br>Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again!<br> <br> Buy my English posies!<br> Here's to match your need --<br> Buy a tuft of royal heath,<br> Buy a bunch of weed<br> White as sand of Muysenberg<br> Spun before the gale --<br> Buy my heath and lilies<br> And I'll tell you whence you hail!<br>Under hot Constantia broad the vineyards lie --<br>Throned and thorned the aching berg props the speckless sky --<br>Slow below the Wynberg firs trails the tilted wain --<br>Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again!<br> <br> Buy my English posies!<br> You that will not turn --<br> Buy my hot-wood clematis,<br> Buy a frond o' fern<br> Gathered where the Erskine leaps<br> Down the road to Lorne --<br> Buy my Christmas creeper<br> And I'll say where you were born!<br>West away from Melbourne dust holidays begin --<br>They that mock at Paradise woo at Cora Lynn --<br>Through the great South Otway gums sings the great South Main --<br>Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again!<br> <br> Buy my English posies!<br> Here's your choice unsold!<br> Buy a blood-red myrtle-bloom,<br> Buy the kowhai's gold<br> Flung for gift on Taupo's face,<br> Sign that spring is come --<br> Buy my clinging myrtle<br> And I'll give you back your home!<br>Broom behind the windy town; pollen o' the pine --<br>Bell-bird in the leafy deep where the ~ratas~ twine --<br>Fern above the saddle-bow, flax upon the plain --<br>Take the flower and turn the hour, and kiss your love again!<br> <br> Buy my English posies!<br> Ye that have your own<br> Buy them for a brother's sake<br> Overseas, alone.<br> Weed ye trample underfoot<br> Floods his heart abrim --<br> Bird ye never heeded,<br> Oh, she calls his dead to him!<br>Far and far our homes are set round the Seven Seas;<br>Woe for us if we forget, we that hold by these!<br>Unto each his mother-beach, bloom and bird and land --<br>Masters of the Seven Seas, oh, love and understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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