"The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile."
"Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound."
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Source: Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61
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