The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Why Flowers Change Colour

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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
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Why Flowers Change Colour
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Why Flowers Change Colour1898Robert Herrick
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37. WHY FLOWERS CHANGE COLOUR.

These fresh beauties (we can prove)
Once were virgins sick of love.
Turn'd to flowers,—still in some
Colours go and colours come.

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