| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 4268 |
| AUTHOR: | Jane Elliott (17271805) |
| QUOTATION: | The flowers of the forest are a wide awae. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Flowers of the Forest. |
| | Note 1. This line appears in the Flowers of the Forest, part second, a later poem by Mrs. Cockburn. See Dyces Specimens of British Poetesses, p. 374. [back] |
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