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Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, the people said, a weed. - Alfred Tennyson (The Flower Quotes)

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, the people said, a weed.

Source:The Flower (1842); in Enoch Arden and Other Poems (Edward Moxon & Co., ed. 1864), Page 152
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  • Name: Alfred Tennyson
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892
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