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Wildflower Children
A Reading A–Z Poetry Book
Word Count: 323

POETRY

Wildflower
Children

Written by Elizabeth Gordon
Illustrated by Janet Laura Scott

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Wildflower
Children

The images and text in this book were first published
in 1918 in a larger collection called Wildflower
Children: The Little Playmates of the Fairies.

Mother Earth’s Children
A Reading A–Z Poetry Book
© 2002 Learning Page, Inc.
Written by Elizabeth Gordon
Illustrated by Janet Laura Scott

Written by Elizabeth Gordon
Illustrated by Janet Laura Scott

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sweet White Violet .............................4
Twinflower ........................................5
Bunch Berry .....................................6
Bottle Gentian...................................7
Rhododendron...................................8
Blue Flag..........................................9
Painted Trillium...............................10
Creamcup ......................................11
Heart Leaved Aster.........................12
Shooting Star ..................................13

Sweet White Violet came to bring

Lupine............................................14

To us the fragrance of the Spring;

Skunk Cabbage ...............................15

Dearest maid in all the wood,

Showy Lady’s Slipper ........................16

Sweet and modest as she’s good.

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Bunch Berry wears a gown of white,
Twinflower Children, dainty pair,

And is a dainty woodland sprite;

Sprinkle fragrance on the air;

She comes, the best of little mothers,

Seldom, elsewhere will you meet

To bring her red-clothed Bunch Berry

Flower Children half so sweet.

brothers.

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“O Bottle Gentian,” begged the bees.

Rhododendron came to town

“Open and give us honey, please?”

In her green and rose pink gown;

“But Bottle Gentian shook his head,

She’s so pretty that we give

“Belongs to Bumble Bee,” he said.

Her the nicest spots to live.
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Blue Flag’s as pretty as can be;

Said Painted Trillium, “As you see

Cousin to Mam’selle Fleur de Lis;

Our folks observe the rule of three;

Loves cool, damp places, and is fond

The styles may change, but still we cling

Of living near a stream or pond.

To our tri-cornered hats each spring.”
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Creamcup comes, the pretty thing,

“I wear my heart outside, you know,”

To gladden California’s spring,

Said Heart Leaved Aster, “That is so

You’ll meet them everywhere in flocks

The bird, the butterfly, the bee

Clambering over hills and rocks.

May tell their secrets all to me.”

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Said Shooting Star,
“We’re sure and steady,

In sand dunes hot or meadows gay

And come as soon as we are ready;

The little Lupines love to play;

We’re not afraid of April’s snows,

In dainty gowns of violet-blue

That’s ’cause we’re healthy, I suppose.”

They’ll nod a glad “Good-day” to you.

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Skunk Cabbage is a handsome thing

Showy Lady’s Slipper knows

Comes while it is cold in spring;

She’s the prettiest thing that grows;

Protects his babes from wind and storm

Her Orchid cousins in the city

In a big coat that keeps them warm.

Say she’s as sweet as she is pretty.
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