“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell, l. 14
“The sweetest flowers in all the world—
A baby's hands.”
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A baby's hands." by Algernon Charles Swinburne?
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