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With Flowers

These have more language than my song,

Take them and let them speak for me.

I whispered them a secret

Down the green lanes of Allary.

You shall remember quiet

Watching them fade, and quiet eyes,

And two hearts given up to love,

A foolish and an overwise.

This poem taken from "Last Songs" by Francis Ledwidge,

Published by Herbert Jenkins,

London 1918 [page 62]Poem Dated: France,

April

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Allary is possibly an anglicised spelling of Allaire, a French Village.

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Francis Ledwidge

Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was an Irish war poet and soldier from County Meath.[1] Sometimes known as the "poet of …

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