Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. Sonnet Sequence on the Shepherds at the Crib (continued)

   

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   XIV. The young girls promise to bring flowers to the Immaculate Virgin, when the Springtide comes.

   To scatter flowers, is to offer Thee, the least sigh, the greatest grief, pain, and happiness, every little sacrifice. These shall be my flowers.
   - The Little Flower.

   When first we feel the genial breath of Spring.
   And see her scatter wide her lustral dews,
   We'll bring to Mary as an offering.
   The Fairest Flowers of Nature, we can choose.
   When velvet green is spread along the hills,
   When the rosebuds start their dreamy eyes to ape.
   When the dale smells sweet with nodding daffodils
   And the honeyed cowslip tufts the golden slope.
   When the violet peeps beneath the hedgerow's shade,
   And the hedge itself perfumes the balmy air,
   When the pale narcissus smiles in sylvan glade.

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Timothy Hurley