“The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.”

— William Cullen Bryant

A Winter Piece http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page24, st. 3 (1821)

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American romantic poet and journalist 1794–1878

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