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THE FLOWER by JOHN GALSWORTHY

First Line: THERE'S A FLOWER, WITH A CUP
Last Line: DISHERITED.
Subject(s): FLOWERS;
THERE'S a flower with a cup --
A cup of dew;
Golden god plucked it up
And gave it you.

If you shake -- let it spill --
Its pretty rain,
All the world will not fill
It up again.

Careless death it must die,
And, like a weed,
In the sun ever lie
Disherited.



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