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 1    5|   doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard,
 2    5|    the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically
 3    6|      cards, either a bunch of flowers, or a wreath of evergreen,
 4    7| looked in the pond and at the flowers, and improved their time.
 5    8|      wild fruits and pleasant flowers, produce instead this pulse.
 6   10|   which frequent it, the wild flowers which grow by its shores,
 7   10|       crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits,
 8   10|     its bluish blades and its flowers and especially their reflections,
 9   10|       are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden
10   12|   life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs,
11   15|   unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked
12   17|        yet rarer colors, like flowers and precious stones, as
13   18|      of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit - not a fossil
14   18|            Blasts soothed the flowers born without seed."~ ~