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"Who comes from the world of flowers? / Daisy and crocus, and sea-blue bell, / And violet shrinking in dewy cell -- / Sly cells that know the secrets of night, / When earth is bathed in fairy light -- / Scarlet, and blue, and golden flowers. "
And so Mr. Kneebreeches had no reason to complain of his pupil that day.