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Double Red Daisies

Double red daisies, they’re my flowers,

Which nobody else may grow.

In a big quarrelsome house like ours

They try it sometimes—but no,

I root them up because they’re my flowers,

Which nobody else may grow.

 

Claire has a tea-rose, but she didn’t plant it;

Ben has an iris, but I don’t want it.

Daisies, double red daisies for me,

The beautifulest flowers in the garden.

 

Double red daisy, that’s my mark:

I paint it in all my books!

It’s carved high up on the beech-tree bark,

How neat and lovely it looks!

So don’t forget that it’s my trade mark;

Don’t copy it in your books.

 

Claire has a tea-rose, but she didn’t plant it;

Ben has an iris, but I don’t want it.

Daisies, double red daisies for me,

The beautifulest flowers in the garden.

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Robert Graves
1895-1985 / English
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