Henry Wotton quote: You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles...

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

Henry Wotton

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Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

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