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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature, Sunset, Kissing
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.254
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.