"Lay her in the gentle earth, Where the summer maketh mirth ; Where young violets have birth ; Where the lily bendeth. Lay her there, the lovely one ! With the rose, her funeral stone ; And for tears, such showers alone As the rain of April lendeth."
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837 (1836), 'Dirge'
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