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TO THE SUNFLOWER, by                    
First Line: Hail! Pretty emblem of my fate!
Last Line: I'd meet my phillis with delight.
Subject(s): Sunflowers


HAIL! pretty emblem of my fate!
Sweet flower, you still on Phoebus wait;
On him you look, and with him move,
By nature led, and constant love.

Know, pretty flower, that I am he,
Who am in all so like to thee;
I, too, my fair one court, and where
She moves, my eyes I thither steer.

But, yet this difference still I find,
The sun to you is always kind;
Does always life and warmth bestow: --
Ah! would my fair one use me so!

Ne'er would I wait till she arose
From her soft bed and sweet repose;
But, leaving thee, dull plant, by night
I'd meet my Phillis with delight.





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