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MIGNONETTE by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: GIVE ME THE EARTH, AND I MIGHT HEAP
Last Line: BETRAYS THE DAINTIER HAND OF GOD.
Subject(s): MIGNONETTES;

Give me the earth, and I might heap
A mountain from the plain;
Give me the waters of the deep,
I might their strength restrain;
But here a secret of the sod
Betrays the daintier hand of God.



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