lucasta:‘Villanelle’ poem written by Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain:Violets from Plug Street Wood,
lucasta:‘Villanelle’ poem written by Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain:Violets from Plug Street Wood,Sweet, I send you oversea.(It is strange they should be blue,Blue, when his soaked blood was red,For they grew around his head:It is strange they should be blue.)Think what they have meant to me - Life and hope and Love and You(and you did not see them growWhere his mangled body layHiding horrors from the day;Sweetest, it was better so.)Violets from oversea,To your dear, far, forgetting landThese I send in memoryKnowing you will understandR.A.L -- source link
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