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So has a Daisy vanished
From the fields today—
So tiptoed many a slipper
To Paradise away—
Oozed so in crimson bubbles
Day's departing tide—
Blooming—tripping—flowing
Are ye then with God?
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Comments1I vividly remember reading this piece as a child, particularly struck by the line "Oozed so in crimson bubbles Day's departing tide." Does anyone else interpret the "crimson bubbles" as a reference to sunset? The visual and emotional complexity of such simple phrases still amazes me. Are the 'tripping' slippers a symbol of death?