Quote#Nature
A pitcher of mignonette
Quote byHenry Cuyler Bunner · 1855–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere (1884), "A Pitcher of Mignonette. Triolet", p. 35.
English (original)
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 the tenement's highest casement.
— Henry Cuyler Bunner
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