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CHILD-FANCIES

And, grateful for all good, with thee incline
To love the best the flower they have not seen!

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GATHERED WILD-FLOWERS

I've brought you some flowers, mother!
Please look at them, mother, look!
See this one!—and here's another
I found beside the brook!


They're very warm, for I held them tight;
You'll want them, I know, to keep,
When they wake again and you see them right,—
But now they're all asleep.