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This little girl inside me (For me.)
— Ivy
This little girl inside me (For me.)
Oh roses for the flush of youth,Grown old before my time.
The holly and the ivy,The holly bears the crown.
I see that God is in all creatures, man and beast, fish and fowl,and hath his being no where else out of the creatures . . .
Well might the thoughtful race of old To hide what wastes away.
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow(And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
Walls must get the weather stainBefore they grow the ivy.
The rugged trees are minglingTo clasp the boughs above.
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,A rare old plant is the ivy green
DirectThe clasping ivy where to climb.
On my velvet couch reclining,What are kings and crowns to me?
Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken vine,The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join
Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd
Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps,And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps
