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Did the flowers fight for it, While, undecried, One selfish daisy Slipp'd it aside; Now has she plunged it in Close to her feet— Nice private water-tank For summer heat?

From The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith