Unnamed Poem 3

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?
But I could never sell.
If you would like to borrow
Until the daffodil
,
Unties her yellow bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the bees, from clover rows
Their hock and sherry draw,
,
Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

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American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Song of Hiawatha." One of the most popular American poets of the 19th century.

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