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Cicely Mary Barker

The Speedwell Fairy

 

Clear blue are the skies;
My petals are blue;
As beautiful, too,
As bluest of eyes.
The heavens are high:
By the field-path I grow
Where wayfarers go,
And "Good Speed," say I:
"See, here is a prize
Of wonderful worth:
A weed of the earth,
As blue as the skies!"

 

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