How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

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The Hyacinth

OUT in the garden there's something so dear!

Just as dear, Do you hear?

Guess what it is and I'll show it to you!

Something that comes in the spring of the year Fragrant as roses and fresh as the dew, Purple and pink and violet too.

Something new, Darling too.

Guess what it is and I'll show it to you!

The Hyacinth — from Flowers and Their Friends (1897)

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