Poetry

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Newquay Mon 04-Nov-19 10:53:54

“Many a flower blooms unseen in the desert”
Anybody know where that’s from?

annodomini Mon 04-Nov-19 11:07:36

Thomas Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Just one stanza in a longer poem.

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DoraMarr Mon 04-Nov-19 11:23:52

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44299/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard

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Newquay Mon 04-Nov-19 16:43:41

Thank you SO much-I knew I could depend on you clever Grans!

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MissAdventure Mon 04-Nov-19 16:45:48

smile
That was good!
Now, if we could just get the 'Jackie' one...