SUNFLOWER

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1. Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
   Who gazest ever true and tender
   On the sun's revolving splendour.—CALDERON, Magico Prodigioso
   

2. The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame
   To nap by daylight, strove t'excuse the blame;
   It was not sleep that made him nod, he said,
   But too great weight and largeness of his head.—ABRAHAM COWLEY, Of Plants
   

3. Spare for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow,
   To court the sky.—CAROLINE GILMAN, To the Ursulines

4. As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets,
   The same look which she turn'd when he rose.—THOMAS MOORE, Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms