A pitcher of mignonette
In a tenement’s highest casement,-
Queer sort of flower-pot-yet
That pitcher of mignonette
Is a garden in heaven set,
To the little sick child in the basement-
The pitcher of mignonette,
In a tenement’s highest casement.
(Henry Cuyler Bunner)
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