When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest f… - John Godfrey Saxe

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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.

John Godfrey Saxe

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John Godfrey Saxe (2 June 1816 – 31 March 1887) was an American poet.

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Alternative Names: John Godfrey Saxe I

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What Lowely meant she didn't know
For she always avoided "everything low,"

Again I hear the creaking step! — He's rapping at the door! — Too well I know the boding sound
That ushers in a bore.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep,
Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station,
Who first invented, and went round advising,
That artificial cut-off, — Early Rising!

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