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Full Many a Flower

I don’t know the name of the flower. Yet, if I knew the name, would the flower would remain so clear in my memory?

I kept thinking of the line from Elegy in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (as quoted in Bull Durham, my favorite baseball movie, also starring Kevin Costner):

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”