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THE FLORAL GIFT. 73 
KING CUP. 
Ranunculus Bulbosiis ,—Class 13, Order 4. 
A gold colored flower, growing double under cultivation, 
found in Europe and North. America. 
I WISH I WAS RICH. 
O knew I the spell of gold, 
I would never poison a fresh young heart, 
With the taint of customs old, 
I would bind no wreath to my forehead free, 
In whose shadows a thought might die, 
Nor drink 1 , from the cup of revelry, 
The ruin my gold would buy. 
But I’d break the fetters of care-worn things, 
And be spirit and fancy free ; 
My mind should go, where it longs to go, 
And the limitless wind outflee. 
I’d climb to to the eyries of eagle men, 
Till the stars became a scroll, 
And pour right on, like the even sea, 
In the strength of a governed soul. 
Willis. 
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