chosen career

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The father plucked the chosen flower,   And gave it to his child; With parted lips and sparkling eye,   She seized the gift and smiled.

From The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People by

The father plucked the chosen flower, And gave it to his child; With parted lips and sparkling eye, She seized the gift and smiled.

From The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor by

No wonder that Peruvian priests, Who worshipped the Sun-god, should take The Sunflower for their chosen flower, And hold it sacred for his sake.

From Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

She is the prize And chosen flower of Ilion's treasuries, Set by the soldiers' gift to follow me.

From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert

Everything was all right now, and the kingdom soon looked like a great garden of pansies; for the chosen flower blossomed everywhere, and rich and poor loved it.

From Lulu's Library, Volume II by Alcott, Louisa May