Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MAGIC FLOWER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT


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THE MAGIC FLOWER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through many days and many days
Last Line: The unfolding of our love's white flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Flowers; Love


THROUGH many days and many days
The seed of love lay hidden close;
We walked the dusty tiresome ways
Where never a leaf or blossom grows.
And in the darkness, all the while,
The little seed its heart uncurled,
And we by many a weary mile
Travelled towards it, round the world.
To the hid centre of the maze
At last we came, and there we found --
O happy day, O day of days!
-- Twin seed-leaves breaking holy ground.
We dropped life's joys, a garnered sheaf,
And spell-bound watched, still hour by hour,
Magic on magic, leaf by leaf,
The unfolding of our love's white flower.







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