A Little Girl to her Flowers in Verse

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daisy. This little daisy we all love, because it seems
to say I'm come to tell good girls and boys
that winter's gone away. Snowdrop, there is another flower too.
I dearly love to see the little snowdrop peeping through

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the frozen ground at me. Primrose. This is a pretty primrose.
In shady lanes it grows and early in the pleasant spring.
In gardens too, it blows daffodil. Here's a formal daffodil,

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though common, yet a favorite. Still it seems such joyous
news to bring as harbinger of pleasant spring may blossom,
O beauteous little may blossom. I am rejoiced that you
or come to smile upon us once again after the

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winter's snow and rain. Violet, How I do love the
violet of all the flowers. It is my pet, How
snug it hides its little head in the green leaves
of its low bed. Lily of the valley, lowly lily

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of the veil. To me, you tell a useful tale,
you say, be pretty as you will. Yet modesty is
lovely er still forget me, not forget me, not, no
lovely flower. I'll think on thee for many an hour
if I could paint, I'd copy thee. Then thou wouldst

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long remember be tulip. The tulip, with its varied hues
of crimson brown and rich dark blues. Though scentless, splendid
you appear when thickly set in rich part tear rose.

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I cannot wonder that the rose is such a favorite flower,
how beautiful and sweet it is with Jessmine in the
bower sunflower. I don't admire the sunflower. It rears its
head so high and looks so proud, and seems to

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say I'm climbing to the sky. Field flowers, But oh,
the fields they are so sweet. The gardens are so
gay that I should like to run about and nosegays
make all day greenhouse, And now will see the greenhouse plants.

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They cannot bear cold air. Yet with the many wild
field flowers immaty they compare myrtles andreaniums. The myrtles and
uraniums seem mostly to abound, and these, in the warm
summer months, are planted in the ground. Camellia japonica. Here

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are the rich camellias, oh tis a splendid site, some
variegated with soft tints, some crimson and some white passion flower.
How gracefully the passion flower along the trellis twining shows
symmetry with colors fare so pleasingly combining oranges. The oranges

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and lemons, too, all in their proper station, though robbed
of half their native charms, invite our admiration conclusion. But
tell me now who made these flowers, Who molded them
so fair, Who taught them with such rich perfume to

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scent the morning air, Who filled their cups with drops
of dew when parch'd with summer's rays, Who tinged their
leaves with brightest hue on which we wandering gaze. Can
man such splendid dyes produce? Can he such colors blend?

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Can he the tendril graceful twine o'er the soft branches bend? O?
No tis God who reigns on high, who formed the
earth and heaven, who framed each star that lights the sky.
He hath to mortals given all these and more. And
should not we frail children of mortality with thankful hearts

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each day, each night think of His goodness infinite, and
pray that gratitude me still are stubborn hearts with rapture.
Phil oh, teach us humbly to adore the first, the last,
the evermore the end, And of a little girl to

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her flowers in verse by anonymous