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love ray seeds, but they might be happy without 
them where 
“ The pale Stellaria grows, 
Like Una with her gentle grace, 
Shining out in a shady place.” 
Mary wondered how the Pimpernel, (for that was 
another of her names,) should ever have heard of 
Una, whom she very well knew in the beautiful 
book, for flowers could not read, but she then 
remembered that flowers had some magic way of 
knowing what the poets had written about them. 
She was acquainted with the Chickweed that feeds 
so many birds, and grows wherever any green thing 
can grow. She observed that the blossoms of the 
Pimpernel were blue in the bud, but pink when 
fully opened, and she remembered to have seen 
them in the grass that grew near the craggy rocks 
of the sea-shore. 
Then the Marygolds spoke, and said they opened 
