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favoured corner there are the flowers 

 what would a spring be without its 

 colour ? If we had the songs and 

 the blue sky alone, it would not be 

 a springtime without the gay flowers. 

 There seemed to be the flowers of a dozen 

 meadows crowded into this small corner, 

 and violets, primroses, cowslips in the 

 greatest profusion ; patches of the lovely 

 blue veronica, with its thousand small faces 

 pointing up to the blue above, looking as 

 if little flakes of the sky had just tumbled 

 down and settled upon the grass to add 

 to the beauty below ; wild roses, pink 

 and white, tall red campion in the grass, 

 ragged robin, and a host of others 

 all appeared in their turn, and made 

 that corner one of the loveliest spots of 

 a beautiful countryside. Then, over all, 

 there was the song of the Lark, and there 

 were few months of the year in which there 

 was not a Lark singing above. Mixed up 

 with the music of the Warblers, Thrush, 



