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Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

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Stevie Smith
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: September 20
Died: 1971
Died: March 7
Illustrator
Novelist
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Hull
England
Florence Margaret Smith
Remember
Lilac
Wells
Stalking
Well
Woody
Nothing
Robust
Must
Scent
Trying
Flower
Tree
Wistful
Forget
Stalk

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