When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, - "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, - though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers. (John Godfrey Saxe)

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, - "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, - though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

John Godfrey Saxe

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