The First Dandelion
1819-1892
Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm
as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
DayPoems Poem No. 2178
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2178.html">The First Dandelion by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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