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“How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b23aa2ba896abaff6fa40eb50f1cdc5ebba7ff785d14767064f6215fcb390ca8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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