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Sonnet - To A Daisy

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Slight as thou art, thou art enough to hide,         Like all created things, secrets from me,         And stand a barrier to eternity.     And I, how can I praise thee well and wide?     From where I dwell-upon the hither side?         Thou little veil for so great mystery,         When shall I penetrate all things and thee,     And then look back? For this I must abide,     Till thou shalt grow and fold and be unfurled         Literally between me and the world.          Then I shall drink from in beneath a spring,     And from a poet's side shall read his book.         O daisy mine, what will it be to look          From God's side even of such a simple thing?

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