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While for his example of such a thing of beauty, he says — 

 And such are daffodils, 

 With the green world they live in. 

 The flower is such a favourite of mine, both for its simple beauty, 

 its botanical interest and difficulties, and its poetical history, that 

 I cannot yet dismiss it till I have read to you one short poem on 

 them. It will not weary you to hear it, even though you know it 

 well. The poem is Herrick's, and one of his prettiest. 

 Fair daffodils, we weep to see 

 You haste away so soon ; 



As j-et the early rising sun 

 Has not attained his moon : 



Stay, stay, 

 Until the hastening day 

 Has run 

 But to the even-song ; 

 And, having prayed together, we 

 Will go with you along. 



We have short time to stay as you, 



We have as short a spring, 

 As quick a growth to meet decay 



As you or anything. 

 We die 

 As your hours do, and dry 



Away, 

 Like to the siunmer's rain. 



Or as the pearls of morning dew, 

 Ne'er to be lound again. 



As a companion spring flower to the daffodil take the Anemone, 

 not as it gi-ows in great variety of beautiful colours in your gardens, 

 but rather as it grows in our woods ; for there are few prettier 

 sights in spring than the rich imdergrowth of a wood, spangled 

 over with the bright stars of the wood anemone. Its English 

 name is "wind flower," a name that it evidently gets from its 

 Greek name av£fiwv»), and which it still keeps in our cottage 

 gardens, but which it is not easy to explain. Pliny said that it 

 never opens but when the wind is blowing, which an English poet 

 copies in speaking of 



The coy anemone, that ne'er uncloses 



Her lips, until they're blown on by the wind ; 



