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Last Line: To be that flower
Subject(s): Seeds


SUPPOSE you were a little seed underground
And you heard the sound
Of spring around,
Wouldn't you stretch and push and grow
Till you moved the dull earth so,
Till a shoot of green
Above the mold was seen?
Wouldn't you be glad to be there
Out in the air?
Wouldn't you be glad indeed
To have changed so from a seed?
And O,
Wouldn't it be fine to grow
And bend and blow
When the wind went by,
And look up at the sky,
And think how clear and blue
It is; wouldn't you
Just climb and climb.
Higher, higher, all the time,
Up, up, through the air
To get up there,
A little more away
From earth each day;
And as you grew
Towards the blue,
Suppose you thought such pretty things
That straight your thought became white wings ''"
A white, white flower outspread
Above the earthy bed.
Where you had lived the dark days through
Before you grew;
O wouldn't you be glad that summer hour
To be that flower!





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