SUNFLOWER. 
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REAL FAITH. 
Real faith is like the sun’s fair flower, 
Which ’midst the clouds that shroud it, and the winds 
That wave it to and fro, and all the change 
Of air, and earth, and sky, doth rear its head, 
And looketh up, still steadfast, to its God. 
THE SUNFLOWER. 
DARWIN. 
The Sunflower, says Darwin, 
Climbs the upland lawn, 
And bows in homage to the rising dawn ! 
Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, 
And watches as it moves the orb of day. 
OVID. 
Still the loved object the fond leaves pursue; 
Still moves their root, the moving sun to view. 
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