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It has a scent as though Love for its dower 
Had on it all his odorous arrows tost ; 
For, though the rose has more perfuming power, 
The Violet (haply ’cause ’tis almost lost, 
And takes us so much trouble to discover) 
Stands first with most, but always with a lover. 
Barry CORNWALL. 
At the Floral Games instituted at Toulouse, 
in the early part of the fourteenth century, in 
the time of the Troubadours, the prize awarded 
to the author of the best poetical composition 
consisted of a golden Violet, to which several 
other prizes were afterwards added by Clemence 
Isaure. This festival, interrupted by the Revo- 
lution, was revived in 1806, and is still held 
annually in the town-house of Toulouse. 

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