15 July The literary calendar
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Buy my flowers—O buy—I pray! The blind girl comes from afar; If the earth be as fair as her children say, These flowers her children are!
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- Beatrice Heron-Maxwell: Elliott & Fry (no individual credited), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Ménie Muriel Dowie: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Robert Conquest: Rob C. Croes (ANEFO), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed: Print made by: William Drummond After: Arminius Mayer Printed by: Day & Co Published by: Thomas McLean, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Thomas Cooper: J. Cochran, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mary Cholmondeley: No photographer credited., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized