With a Spray of Apple Blossoms

by Walter Learned

The promise of these fragrant flowers,   The fruit that ’neath these blossoms lies Once hung, they say, in Eden’s bowers,   And tempted Eve in Paradise. O fairest daughter of Eve’s blood,   Lest her misprision thine should be, I ’ve nipped temptation in the bud   And send this snowy spray to thee.

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