Dear Madam Placid! Others knew Your worth as well as he, and threw Their flowers upon your coffin too, I take for granted. Their loves are lost; but still we see Your kind and gracious memory Bloom yearly with the almond tree The Frenchman planted. Dear Madam Placid! Others knew Your worth as well as he, and threw Their flowers upon your coffin too, I take for granted. Their loves are lost; but still we see Your kind and gracious memory Bloom yearly with the almond tree The Frenchman planted. |