“Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart.”
Amy Lowell (1874–1925) US writer
"Petals," from Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912).
“Those unknown heroes whose whitened bones have been piously gathered here, and whose green graves we now strew with sweet and beautiful flowers, choice emblems alike of pure hearts and brave spirits, reached, in their glorious career that last highest point of nobleness beyond which human power cannot go. They died for their country.”
1870s, The Unknown Loyal Dead (1871)
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