"When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed."
— Daffodils

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Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), Divination by a Daffadill.

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