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PART	A
A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew	B
And the young winds fed it with silver dew	B
And it opened its fan like leaves to the light	C
And closed them beneath the kisses of Night	C
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And the Spring arose on the garden fair	D
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere	D
And each flower and herb on Earth s dark breast	E
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest	E
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But none ever trembled and panted with bliss	F
In the garden the field or the wilderness	G
Like a doe in the noontide with love s sweet want	H
As the companionless Sensitive Plant	I
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The snowdrop and then the violet	J
Arose from the ground with warm rain wet	K
And their breath was mixed with fresh odour sent	L
From the turf like the voice and the instrument	M
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Then the pied wind flowers and the tulip tall	N
And narcissi the fairest among them all	N
Who gaze on their eyes in the stream s recess	O
Till they die of their own dear loveliness	O
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And the Naiad like lily of the vale	P
Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale	P
That the light of its tremulous bells is seen	Q
Through their pavilions of tender green	Q
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And the hyacinth purple and white and blue	B
Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew	B
Of music so delicate soft and intense	O
It was felt like an odour within the sense	O
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And the rose like a nymph to the bath addressed	E
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast	E
Till fold after fold to the fainting air	D
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare	D
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And the wand like lily which lifted up	R
As a Maenad its moonlight coloured cup	R
Till the fiery star which is its eye	S
Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky	S
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And the jessamine faint and the sweet tuberose	O
The sweetest flower for scent that blows	O
And all rare blossoms from every clime	T
Grew in that garden in perfect prime	T
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And on the stream whose inconstant bosom	T
Was pranked under boughs of embowering blossom	T
With golden and green light slanting through	B
Their heaven of many a tangled hue	B
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Broad water lilies lay tremulously	U
And starry river buds glimmered by	S
And around them the soft stream did glide and dance	O
With a motion of sweet sound and radiance	O
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And the sinuous paths of lawn and of moss	O
Which led through the garden along and across	O
Some open at once to the sun and the breeze	O
Some lost among bowers of blossoming trees	O
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Were all paved with daisies and delicate bells	O
As fair as the fabulous asphodels	O
And flow rets which drooping as day drooped too	B
Fell into pavilions white purple and blue	B
To roof the glow worm from the evening dew	B
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And from this undefiled Paradise	O
The flowers as an infant s awakening eyes	O
Smile on its mother whose singing sweet	V
Can first lull and at last must awaken it	J
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When Heaven s blithe winds had unfolded them	T
As mine lamps enkindle a hidden gem	T
Shone smiling to Heaven and every one	W
Shared joy in the light of the gentle sun	W
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For each one was interpenetrated	J
With the light and the odour its neighbour shed	J
Like young lovers whom youth and love make dear	X
Wrapped and filled by their mutual atmosphere	X
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But the Sensitive Plant which could give small fruit	J
Of the love which it felt from the leaf to the root	J
Received more than all it loved more than ever	Y
Where none wanted but it could belong to the giver	Y
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For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower	Y
Radiance and odour are not its dower	Z
It loves even like Love its deep heart is full	A2
It desires what it has not the Beautiful	B2
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The light winds which from unsustaining wings	O
Shed the music of many murmurings	O
The beams which dart from many a star	C2
Of the flowers whose hues they bear afar	C2
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The plumed insects swift and free	U
Like golden boats on a sunny sea	U
Laden with light and odour which pass	O
Over the gleam of the living grass	O
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The unseen clouds of the dew which lie	S
Like fire in the flowers till the sun rides high	S
Then wander like spirits among the spheres	O
Each cloud faint with the fragrance it bears	O
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The quivering vapours of dim noontide	J
Which like a sea o er the warm earth glide	J
In which every sound and odour and beam	T
Move as reeds in a single stream	T
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Each and all like ministering angels were	Y
For the Sensitive Plant sweet joy to bear	D
Whilst the lagging hours of the day went by	S
Like windless clouds o er a tender sky	S
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And when evening descended from Heaven above	D2
And the Earth was all rest and the air was all love	D2
And delight though less bright was far more deep	E2
And the day s veil fell from the world of sleep	E2
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And the beasts and the birds and the insects were drowned	J
In an ocean of dreams without a sound	J
Whose waves never mark though they ever impress	O
The light sand which paves it consciousness	O
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Only overhead the sweet nightingale	P
Ever sang more sweet as the day might fail	P
And snatches of its Elysian chant	J
Were mixed with the dreams of the Sensitive Plant	J
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The Sensitive Plant was the earliest	J
Upgathered into the bosom of rest	J
A sweet child weary of its delight	J
The feeblest and yet the favourite	J
Cradled within the embrace of Night	J
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PART	J
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There was a Power in this sweet place	O
An Eve in this Eden a ruling Grace	O
Which to the flowers did they waken or dream	T
Was as God is to the starry scheme	T
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A Lady the wonder of her kind	J
Whose form was upborne by a lovely mind	J
Which dilating had moulded her mien and motion	W
Like a sea flower unfolded beneath the ocean	W
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Tended the garden from morn to even	F2
And the meteors of that sublunar Heaven	W
Like the lamps of the air when Night walks forth	G2
Laughed round her footsteps up from the Earth	H2
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She had no companion of mortal race	O
But her tremulous breath and her flushing face	O
Told whilst the morn kissed the sleep from her eyes	O
That her dreams were less slumber than Paradise	O
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As if some bright Spirit for her sweet sake	I2
Had deserted Heaven while the stars were awake	I2
As if yet around her he lingering were	Y
Though the veil of daylight concealed him from her	Y
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Her step seemed to pity the grass it pressed	J
You might hear by the heaving of her breast	J
That the coming and going of the wind	J
Brought pleasure there and left passion behind	J
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And wherever her aery footstep trod	J
Her trailing hair from the grassy sod	J
Erased its light vestige with shadowy sweep	E2
Like a sunny storm o er the dark green deep	E2
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I doubt not the flowers of that garden sweet	J
Rejoiced in the sound of her gentle feet	J
I doubt not they felt the spirit that came	T
From her glowing fingers through all their frame	T
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She sprinkled bright water from the stream	T
On those that were faint with the sunny beam	T
And out of the cups of the heavy flowers	O
She emptied the rain of the thunder showers	O
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She lifted their heads with her tender hands	O
And sustained them with rods and osier bands	O
If the flowers had been her own infants she	U
Could never have nursed them more tenderly	U
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And all killing insects and gnawing worms	O
And things of obscene and unlovely forms	O
She bore in a basket of Indian woof	J2
Into the rough woods far aloof	J2
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In a basket of grasses and wild flowers full	A2
The freshest her gentle hands could pull	A2
For the poor banished insects whose intent	J
Although they did ill was innocent	J
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But the bee and the beamlike ephemeris	O
Whose path is the lightning's and soft moths that kiss	O
The sweet lips of the flowers and harm not did she	U
Make her attendant angels be	U
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And many an antenatal tomb	T
Where butterflies dream of the life to come	T
She left clinging round the smooth and dark	K2
Edge of the odorous cedar bark	K2
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This fairest creature from earliest Spring	L2
Thus moved through the garden ministering	L2
Mi the sweet season of Summertide	J
And ere the first leaf looked brown she died	J
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PART	J
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Three days the flowers of the garden fair	D
Like stars when the moon is awakened were	Y
Or the waves of Baiae ere luminous	O
She floats up through the smoke of Vesuvius	O
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