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 And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze,
 Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.  
 And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze,
 Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. 
 Blue thou art, intensely blue;
 Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?  
 Blue thou art, intensely blue;
 Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? 
 Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow,
 Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,
  With folded read more 
 Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow,
 Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,
  With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow
   The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.