Violet Not The Violets Poem by Saiom Shriver

Violet Not The Violets



Violate not
the violets
who vy not with the ivy
in playing their
violins of violet light.



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Footnote:

Clarence Darrow, the foremost criminal defense attorney of the US in the 20th Century, a man

who defended those on death row, suffragettes, blacks, union leaders, socialists, anarchists,

communists, free thinkers, asked Mary Field not to pluck violets saying

'It is a shame to break up their little love affairs.'
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