Note

The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die.

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Tenth Impression

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First Edition printed January 1898 Second Edition printed March 1898 Third Edition printed September 1898 Fourth Edition printed January 1900 Fifth Edition printed December 1901 Sixth Impression printed August 1903 Seventh Impression printed 1904 February Eighth Impression printed May 1905 Ninth Impresion printed April 1906 Tenth Impression printed Nov. 1907

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to My Wife

Take, dear, my little sheaf of songs, For, old or new, All that is good in them belongs Only to you;

And, singing as when all was young, They will recall Those others, lived but left unsung— The bent of all.