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1. The First Jasmines

Little White Lily
Sat by a stone,
Drooping and waiting
Till the sun shone.
Little White Lily
Sunshine has fed;
Little White Lily
Is lifting her head.
Little White Lily
Drooping with pain,
Waiting and waiting
For the wet rain.
Little White Lily
Holds her cup;
Rain is fast falling
And filling it up.
Little White Lily
Smells very sweet;
On her head sunshine,
Rain at her feet.
Thanks to the sunshine,
Thanks to the rain,
Little White Lily
Is happy again.
2. A Cherry Tree
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Easterride.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room.
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

3. Mangroves
Mangrove trees are tall and strong. They have thick branches and breathing roots. These branches that grow downwards
are actually roots. Mangroves have thick leaves and blind roots. These trees grow close to the sea in muddy and salty
water. Mangrove trees are also known as ‘Halophytes’.

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