"When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers."

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Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.4

John Godfrey Saxe

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