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Where my caravan has rested,
Flowers I leave you on the grass.
All the flowers of love and memory,
You will find them when you pass.

— Edward Teschemacher

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Parodied in Punch, vol. 147 (12 August 1914) p. 157 ("A Song for the Holidays")

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