My little Mädchen found one day
A curious something in her play,
That was not fruit, nor flower, nor seed;
It was not anything that grew,
Or crept, or climbed, or swam, or flew;
Had neither legs nor wings, indeed;
And yet she was not sure, she said...
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How still the room is! But a while ago |
There was a time when Death and I You knelt beside me, and I heard, |
I broke one day a slender stem, Careless, I dropped it, in a place... |