“Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.”

The Flower; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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British poet laureate 1809–1892

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“Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.”