Sunday, August 10, 2008

Little faded flower


"'Tis but a little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear!
'Twill bring me back one golden hour,
Through many a weary year.
I may not to the world impart
The secret of its power,
But treasured in my inmost heart,
I keep my faded flower."

Ellen Clementine Howarth
(1827-1899)

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