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Exalted Flower
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| Exalted Flower written by William Henry Davies |
| From "Forty New Poems", (1918) |
No more of that, you butterfly,
That lie so still on this green leaf,
Pretending you're a flower again,
And wings but bring you grief:
You have no cause, exalted flower,
To doubt your flying power.
No more of that! You with a gift
Not granted yet to any bee
Or bird that's flying in the air:
The precious gift to see
Dark tunnels in this open light,
And vanish out of sight.
| This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. |
