I send you a decrepit flower
That nature sent to me
At parting -- she was going south
And I designed to stay --

Her motive for the souvenir
If sentiment for me
Or circumstances prudential
Withheld invincibly --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1324. I send you a decrepit flower
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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