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Mary Howitt. 
r\ OD might have made the earth bring forth 
Enough for great and small, 
The oak-tree and the cedar-tree. 
Without a flower at all. 
We might have had enough, enough 
For every want of ours, 
For luxury, medicine and toil, 
And yet have had no flowers. 
The one within the mountain mine 
Requireth none to grow ; 
Nor doth it need the lotus-flower 
To make the river flow. 
The clouds might give abundant rain; 
The nightly dews might fall, 
And the herb that keepeth life in man 
Might yet have drunk them all. 
