The Flowers — Nursery Rhyme Lyrics

All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.
Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames --
These must all be fairy names!
Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!
Fair are grown-up people's trees,
But the fairest woods are these;
Where, if I were not so tall,
I should live for good and all.

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What are the words to The Flowers?
The lyrics to The Flowers are: All the names I know from nurse: / Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, / Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, / And the Lady Hollyhock. / Fairy places, fairy things, / Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, ... Read the full 16-line nursery rhyme at Rhyme Buster.
How many lines does The Flowers have?
"The Flowers" has 16 lines of verse.

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