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LYRICAL POEMS.
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To ev’ry pleasure of my fate
One of these flowers is consecrate,
And all forget-me-nots of mine
Around a linden[1] spray I twine.

  1. The linden was the sacred tree of the Slavonic Mythology, and is now regarded as the symbol of patriotism.