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I Send You A Decrepit Flower

Emily Dickinson

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I send you a decrepit flower
That nature sent to me
At parting-she was going south
And I designed to stay-

Her motive for the souvenir
If sentiment for me
Or circumstances prudential
Withheld invincibly-

(C) Emily Dickinson
01/01/2000


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