“Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome [[May],
Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.”

—  James Russell Lowell

To the Dandelion http://www.gaygardener.com/poems/gpoem072.phtml, st. 1

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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