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1819–1892

The First Dandelion

Walt Whitman

Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass — innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.

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The First Dandelion · Walt Whitman · Poetry Cove