First Dandelion

A bright meadow of sunny dandelion flowers, green dandelion leaves, and warm dirt. Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face. -- Walt Whitman Art: Still life with dandelions by Otto Didrik Ottesen, 1892