The sensitive plant

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Three days the flowers of the garden fair,

Like stars when the moon is awakened, were,

Or the waves of Baiæ, ere luminous

She floats up through the smoke of Vesuvius.

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And on the fourth, the Sensitive Plant

Felt the sound of the funeral chant,

And the steps of the bearers, heavy and slow,