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						The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay 
						
						O DANDELION, rich and haughty,  King of village flowers!  Each day is coronation time,  You have no humble hours.  I like to see you bring a troop  To beat the blue-grass spears,  To scorn the lawn-mower that would be  Like fate's triumphant shears,  Your yellow heads are cut away,  It seems your reign is o'er.  By noon you raise a sea of stars  More golden than before.						 
						
						
						
						
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