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COLUMBINE. 



SPRUNG in a cleft of the wayside steep, 

 And saucily nodding, flushing deep, 



With her airy tropic bells aglow, 

 Bold and careless, yet wondrous light, 

 And swung into poise on the stony height, 



Like a challenge flung to the world below ! 



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