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MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 12, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the season when the elves of spring
Last Line: And the wild tulips on the grassy shelves!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies


It is the season when the elves of Spring
Help up the first anemones that peep
Through the young corn, and rouse from out their sleep
The pale green hellebores for March to swing;

Before they bid the field narcissus fling
Its perfume on the furrows that they keep,
Or let the wild red tulip's flame upleap
In honour of great April's Fairy King.

O God, to think that in a spring or two
When she had learnt to run, we were to stroll
Among the fields where work the busy elves,

And see her pick the daffodils that strew
Each olive-planted terrace and sweet knoll,
And the wild tulips on the grassy shelves!





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