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Columbine: The Mourning Dove - Page 2


© Audrey Stallsmith
Page 2

Apr 1, 2000


This May-blooming plant will now always stand as an apt symbol for the lives which "flew away" in the freshness of their youth. Years ago, C. W. McCall could almost have been forseeing the tragedy when he sang of the wild Rockies' variety, "Columbine, columbine, blue on the mountain,"--and added plaintively, "Will you miss me when I've gone away?"

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1.   Apr 1, 2000 3:28 PM
That columbine meant Dove. I've seen so many spurless varieties offered for sale this year that I'm amazed. To me those just aren't columbine. ...

-- posted by CarolWallace



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