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THREE FLOWERS OF MODERN GREECE.

I.

IANOULA.

O sisters! fairly have ye to rejoice,
  Who of your weakness wed
With lordly might: yea, now I praise your choice.
  As the vine clingeth with fair fingers spread
Over some dark tree-stem,
  So on your goodly husbands with no dread
Ye cling, and your fair fingers hold on them.