“The sun came up with no conclusions
Flowers sleepin' in their beds
The city cemetary's hummin'
I'm wide awake, its mornin”
Road To Joy
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
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Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
Oh think not my Spirits are always as light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 19, The Successful Politician Does Not Drink
“The flowers of the forest are a’ wide awae.”
The Flowers of the Forest. Note: This line appears in the “Flowers of the Forest,” part second, a later poem by Alison Cockburn. See Dyce’s “Specimens of British Poetesses,” p. 374.