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1881–1941

Saxifrage.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

The wide, wide sky was a crystal clear, A great blue dome that quivered near. And oh, the white-flowered miracle grown Out of the broad gray breast of a stone!

Little plant, did you guess that when I heard You whisper your one sweet rune-telling word, Straight into the crystal I could see, And the Heart of the Sky leaned down to me?

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