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White, white as the wonder undefiled Of Eve just wakened in Paradise; Nay, white as the angel of a child That looks into God's own eyes! Harriet McEwen Kimball [1834-1917] BUTTERCUPS There must be fairy miners Just underneath the mould, Such wondrous quaint designers Who live in caves of gold. They take the shining metals, And beat them into shreds, And mould them into petals To make the flowers' heads. Sometimes they melt the flowers To tiny seeds like pearls, And store them up in bowers For little boys and girls. And still a tiny fan turns Above a forge of gold, To keep, with fairy lanterns, The world from growing old. Wilfrid Thorley [1878- THE BROOM FLOWER Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest among it. I know the realms where people say The flowers have not their fellow; I know where they shine out like suns, The crimson and the yellow. I know where ladies live enchained In luxury's silken fetters, And flowers as bright as glittering gems Are used for written letters. But ne'er was flower so fair as this, In modern days or olden; It groweth on its nodding stem Like to a garland golden. And all about my mother's door Shine out its glittering bushes, And down the glen, where clear as light The mountain-water gushes. Take all the rest; but give me this, And the bird that nestles in it; I love it, for it loves the Broom-- The green and yellow linnet. Well call the rose the queen of flowers, And boast of that of Sharon, Of lilies like to marble cups, And the golden rod of Aaron: I care not how these flowers may be Beloved of man and woman; The Broom it is the flower for me, That groweth on the common. Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest among it. Mary Howitt [1799-1888] THE SMALL CELANDINE There is a Flower, the lesser Celandine, That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain; And, the first moment that the sun may shine, Bright as the sun himself, 'tis out again! When hailstones have been falling, swarm on swarm, Or blasts the green field and the trees distressed, Oft have I seen it muffled up from harm, In close self-shelter, like a thing at rest. But lately, one rough day, this Flower I passed And recognized it, though an altered form, Now standing forth an offering to the blast, And buff
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