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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Purple Violets

Violets in purple mourning
 * Bloomed as flakes of driven snow,

Calvarys rugged path adorning
 * Ere the Saviour knew its woe.

When the Virgin Mother, holy,
 * In her bitter anguish passed,

O'er the blossoms white and lowly,
 * Was her sacred shadow cast;

And the agony of sorrow,
 * Falling like a purple pall.—

Unforgotten with the morrow—
 * Still doth linger over all.

Alma Frances McCollum 81