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 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
THE AVATAR
Bloom or repute for graft or seedIn flowers the flower-gods never heed.
The rose-god once came down and took—
Form in a rose? Nay, but indeed
The meeker form and humbler look
Of Sweet-Briar, a wilding or weed.
| Collected poems of Herman Melville | |