"Though youth be past and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like Box that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems."
— Sarah Josepha Hale

January 1, 1970

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"Constancy"; Flora's Interpreter: or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments (1832), p. 27