“I send thee pansies while the year is young,
Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung
By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.”

— Sarah Doudney

Poem: Pansies.

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English novelist and poet 1841–1926

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