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See Hieracium's various tribe, Of plumy seed and radiate flowers, The course of Time their blooms describe And wake or sleep appointed hours.

Broad o'er its imbricated cup The Goatsbeard spreads its golden rays, But shuts its cautious petals up, Retreating from the noon-tide blaze:

Pale as a pensive cloister'd nun The Bethlem-star, her face unveils, When o'er the mountain peers the Sun, But shades it from the vesper gales.