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The Mushroom
is the Elf of
Plants -
At Evening, it
is not
At Morning, in
a Truffled Hut
It stop opon
a Spot
As if it tarried
always
And yet it's
whole Career
Is shorter than
a Snake's
Delay -
And fleeter than
a Tare -
'Tis Vegetation's
Juggler -
The Germ of
Alibi -
Doth like a
Bubble antedate
And like a
Bubble, hie -
I feel as if
the Grass was
pleased
To have it
intermit -
This surreptitious
Scion
Of Summer's
circumspect.
Had Nature
any supple Face
Or could
she one
contemn -
Had Nature
an Apostate -
That Mushroom -
it is Him!
A Bee his
Burnished Car -
riage
Drove boldly
to a Rose -
Combinedly
alighting -
Himself -
his Equipage.
The Rose
received his
Visit
With frank
tranquility,
Witholding not
a Crescent
To his cupidity.
Their Moment
consummated
Remained for
him - to flee -
Remained for
her, of Rapture
But the
Humility.
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