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Geranium, houseleek, laid in oblong beds / On the trim grass. The daisies' leprous stain / Is fresh. Each night the daisies burst again, / Though every day the gardener crops their heads.
A wistful child, in foul unwholesome shreds, / Recalls some legend of a daisy chain / That makes a pretty necklace. She would fain / Make one, and wear it, if she had some threads.