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Prayer For A Profusion Of Sunflowers

by Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

Send sunflowers!
With my turkey-bone whistle
I am calling the birds
To sing upon the sunflowers.
For when the clouds hear them singing
They will come quickly,
And rain will fall upon our fields.
Send sunflowers!




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