You shall be the rose you see
And the cardinal's cry you hear.
No frost will come, when north is south,
To end the cutworm's year.
And you shall be the breeze you feel
Caress you with a sigh.
But songbirds' breasts will pillows be
For mites that never die.
And you shall be the bud that starts,
And petals as they fall,
And the sixfold mouth that eats the bud
That never starts at all.
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