While the butter-cups toss golden heads,
Consequential bees alight,
Upon the downy saffron beds
Of the dandelion,
Fit for kings to lie on;
There, a lazy butterfly,
Like a thing adrift from Eden,
While saucy insects flutter by
In a busy throng,
Slowly sails along.

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