1592996472000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-43855 1760552675057 1760544261000 1760552465371 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-43855 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/43855 8d638de0-0973-3040-8535-2e0fa02caa11 7 reference term-102337 adlib-term-102337 dcd9270a-081e-3495-9cca-52c4cea5a94d inscription reference term-98197 adlib-term-98197 043b6041-329c-3b0c-9bdf-d6fc5c8db0c1 drawings reference term-106206 adlib-term-106206 da969d02-66a2-3e51-8dde-d1d8613f2ff6 paper Support Height mm 326 Width mm 255 Leaf Paintings, Drawings and Prints PD.8-1980.f.3 1 accession number PD.8-1980.f.3 43855 priref 43855 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/43855 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/43855 recto, upper right watercolour 3 appears in three columns, the first two parallel, and the third below; the breaks occur following: '...felon's grave?' and '...a mimic sun.' recto watercolour Shun the waste, the common wood / Where the cottage-children sally: / Stalk, that snapped so musically, / Oozing thick with milky blood, / Solitude for thee were good. / Dandelion, dost thou crave / For some maiden breast to lie on, / Smiling, dying, dandelion, / Some soft hand to stoop & save, / Save thee from thy felon's grave? / Leave thy dreaming; Know that eyes / Sad as mine have wit to bless thee, / Though I bend not, nor caress thee, / He that sports with Passion dies, / Seal thy heart: be pure, be wise. / Dandelion, see thou shun / Hope of fickle adoration: / Crush thy larger aspiration. / Flaunt thee, till thy race be run. / Stare and glow, a mimic sun. / Blow thy feathered aureole; / Let the shadowy arrows quiver / Down the glade, across the river, / Then at eve, when flower-bells toll, / Then release thy dreaming soul. / Benson verso watercolour 4 verso watercolour Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, / Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, / First pledge of blithesome May, / Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, / High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they / An Eldorado in the grass have found, / Which not the rich earth's ample round / May match in wealth, - thou art more dear to me / Than all the prouder summer blooms may be. / Gold such as thine ne'er drew the Spanish prow / Through the primeval hush of Indian seas, / Nor wrinkled the lean brown / Of age, to rob the lover's heart of ease; / 'Tis the spring's largess, which she scatters now / To rich and poor alike, with lavish hand, / Though most hearts never understand / To take it at God's value, but pass by / The offered wealth with unrewarded eye / Lowell. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153344 adlib-agent-153344 d454a91d-25f9-3c58-a663-dffdf9f636f3 Bicknell, Peter 1980 1980 1980 given 1908 1908 1908 draughtsman reference agent-157844 adlib-agent-157844 9b321248-f424-3bf6-ba67-0a58e8bd3f52 Bicknell, Clarence reference term-148183 adlib-term-148183 61a0c212-6173-3c83-a41c-70b0710f6087 1900s reference term-106211 adlib-term-106211 a643b236-c3c1-3854-ba79-8c4da8aa6dfc watercolour reference term-31041 adlib-term-31041 777e9d03-48c7-3aba-a563-03dee309fe95 graphite reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British reference term-58201 adlib-term-58201 16bd0e86-9f1c-3718-b3c8-1fb4dd03c3a6 plant literal plant plant

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