You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known. Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were yours alone. What are you when the Rose is blown?
48 posted on 06/21/2006 10:47:53 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)