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...in happy expressions and images. What truth of nature poetically exhibited is there in this stanza ! Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thr&sh Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call. Spreading out thy glossy breast...

...first have met, I have seen thee, high and low, Thirty years or more, and yet * Common Pilewort. 'T was a face I did not know ; Thou hast now, go where I...is on a bush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless...

...found thee out, Little flower ! I'll make a stir, Like a great astronomer. Modest, yet withal an elf Bold, and lavish of thyself; Since we needs must first...years or more, and yet 'Twas a face I did not know; i Thou hast, now, go where I may, Fifty greetings in a day. THE CELANDINE. 61 Ere a leaf is on a bush,...

...found thee out, Little flower ! I'll make a stir, Like a great astronomer. Modest, yet withal an elf Bold, and lavish of thyself; Since we needs must first...thee, high and low, Thirty years or more, and yet Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about its nest, Thou wilt come...

...They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. V Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless...