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On Gilly-flowers Begotten
1898Alfred Pollard

192. ON GILLY-FLOWERS BEGOTTEN.

What was't that fell but now
From that warm kiss of ours?
Look, look! by love I vow
They were two gilly-flowers.
Let's kiss and kiss again,
For if so be our closes
Make gilly-flowers, then
I'm sure they'll fashion roses.