If Flowers Had Ghosts
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
1872 to 1942
Track 1
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So now, when April fires the broom
And cowslips clamber up the coomb,
If flowers had ghosts!
They'd come a-tremble from the tomb;
Who spoke of her in days of gloom,
You'd love them when the skies were grey,
Where beaux have knelt with Spring's bouquet
You would not — this I greatly pray —
When wintry fields are bare of bloom
For belles in silk of Jacquard's loom:
Of buds long picked should haunt your room —
Your room that dreams in ancient way,
If flowers had ghosts, that thin perfume
Forget the friends of yesterday,
If flowers had ghosts?
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