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First Line: What girl but, having gathered flowers
Last Line: Not the worst bud -- who can tell?
Subject(s): Humility


WHAT girl but, having gathered flowers,
Stript the beds and spoilt the bowers,
From the lapful light she carries
Drops a careless bud? -- nor tarries
To regain the waif and stray:
"Store enough for home" -- she'll say.

So say I too: give your lover
Heaps of loving -- under, over,
Whelm him -- make the one the wealthy!
Am I all so poor who -- stealthy
Work it was! -- picked up what fell:
Not the worst bud -- who can tell?





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