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He likes the poor things of the world the best,It pleases him to stoop for buttercups.
— Buttercups
He likes the poor things of the world the best,It pleases him to stoop for buttercups.
Light gatherer. You fell from a staryou squeal at and fly in.
The royal kingcup boldDares not don his coat of gold.
All will be gay when noontide wakes anewThe buttercups, the little children's dower.
The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,To catch the sunshine and the dew.
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows,Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
Against her ankles as she trodThe lucky buttercups did nod.
And O the buttercups! that fieldAmong the green!
The buttercups across the fieldMade sunshine rifts of splendor.
When buttercups are blossoming,Blanche and I, ere youth had sped.
