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The warm sun kissed the earth
To consecrate thy birth,
And from his close embrace
Thy radiant face
Sprang into sight,
A blossoming delight.
--
"The Soul of the Sunflower" in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XXII (October 1881), p. 942

 

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