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Toru Dutt - Love Came to Flora Asking for a FlowerToru Dutt - Love Came to Flora Asking for a Flower
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Love came to Flora asking for a flower                  That would of flowers be undisputed queen,                  The lily and the rose, long, long had been              Rivals for that high honor. Bards of power              Had sung their claims. "The rose can never tower                  Like the pale lily with her Juno mien"                  "But is the lily lovelier?" Thus between              Flower-factions rang the strife in Psyche`s bower.              "Give me a flower delicious as the rose                And stately as the lily in her pride"            But of what color?" "Rose-red," Love first chose,                Then prayed "No, lily-white or, both provide;"                And Flora gave the lotus, "rose-red" dyed,            And "lily-white" the queenliest flower that blows.
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