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; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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