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But yesterday there had come a change over them,
and they had forgotten to think.

So when they lay down they crushed the tall
poppies with their bodies, and maimed them for ever,
and the poppies breathed upon the children as they

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slept, and gave them of their subtle poison ; for they,
too, were flowers of death.

The children rose and stretched their weary limbs,
and as they looked upon the place where they had
lain they saw the havoc that they had made.