| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | The Violet | | By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | | THE VIOLET in her green-wood bower, | |
| Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, | |
| May boast itself the fairest flower | |
| In glen or corpse or forest dingle. | |
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| Though fair her gems of azure hue, | 5 |
| Beneath the dewdrop’s weight reclining; | |
| I’ve seen an eye of lovelier blue, | |
| More sweet through watery lustre shining. | |
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| The summer sun that dew shall dry | |
| Ere yet the day be past its morrow, | 10 |
| Nor longer in my false love’s eye | |
| Remained the tear of parting sorrow. | | | | |
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