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But the core symbols of the ceremony are spare, as if no gesture can measure up to the memory: a red field poppy and a silence.

Even when the red is very intense, as in the common field poppy, the pleasing expression of purple on red is very evident.

The scarlet beans in summer, however, would brighten it up, and field poppies and dandelions sprang up in a quite miraculous way to Hansi's delight.

Only you must imagine these brocade flowers are real red field poppies, and this sofa is a haycock, just at the back of Copthorne Farm.

In the centre is the seed vessel, somewhat like an urn; indeed, the yellow poppy resembles the scarlet field poppy, though smaller in width of petal and much more local in habitat.