Alma Frances McCollum

Peter McArthur
Canadian Singers and Their Songs (1919)edited by Edward S. CaswellPurple Violets by Alma Frances McCollum
John McCrae
Alma Frances McCollum3036402Canadian Singers and Their Songs — Purple Violets1919Edward S. Caswell

ALMA FRANCES McCOLLUM
AUTHOR OF "FLOWER LEGENDS AND OTHER POEMS."

Purple Violets
Violets in purple mourning
Bloomed as flakes of driven snow,
Calvarys rugged path adorning
Ere the Saviour knew its woe.
When the Virgin Mother, holy,
In her bitter anguish passed,
O'er the blossoms white and lowly,
Was her sacred shadow cast;
And the agony of sorrow,
Falling like a purple pall.—
Unforgotten with the morrow—
Still doth linger over all.
Alma Frances McCollum