Winter is gone, and spring is over.
The cuckoo-flowers grow mauver and mauver

Found in | Louis Untermeyer 8 October 1927 "A London Letter" The Saturday Review Vol 4 Iss 11 p.178 | Michael Roberts November–December 1928 "On Mechanical Hallelujahs, or How Not To Do It" Poetry Review Vol 19 Iss 6 p.436 | Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations (2009) p. 343 "The Weather" no.1 | cf. earlier comments on this over–mauver rhyme | "Local Colour" Punch (26 Nov 1892) vol. 102 p.250 col.3 | Julian Ralph "In the Bear's Paw" The Chicago Sunday Tribune (12 Jan 1896) Vol 55 Iss 12 p.2 col.1 'It has been said he once wrote a poem in which he spoke of birds' wings growing "mauver and mauver" in order to achieve a rhyme with a line ending "hover[."]' | V R "Flowers, Reviews, and Reminiscences" The Athenaeum (6 Feb 1920) no.4684 p.172 col.2