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But O, young beauty of the woods,
Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds;
Lest Flora, angry at thy crime
To kill her infants in their prime,
Do quickly make the example yours;
And ere we see,
Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. - Andrew Marvell
Attribution: Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), British poet. The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers (l. 33–40). . . The Complete Poems [Andrew Marvell]. Elizabeth Story Donno, ed. (1972, repr. 1985) Penguin.

Categories: Children And Childhood, Flowers, Nature

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