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drowsily folded. Here, in its own place, 

 queening it over the rocking leaves, with 

 the setting of field and sky, what so mag- 

 nificent ? Is it not well worth a day's ride 

 to see breadths of such bloom ? There is 

 no crowding. Each royal blossom is set in 

 its own sufficient green space. Yet you 

 take away the sense of a tossing sea of 

 leaves, with foam of cream -white flowers 

 cresting each wave of it. By and by, when 

 the frost comes, the flower- hearts will be 

 round capsules set all over with sweetish, 

 oval, nutty seed. That is what gives it the 

 name of water chincapin. Cut a generous 

 sheaf of blossoms you will never break the 

 tough stems then thank God that it seems 

 good to Him to make lilies of the field, the 

 wood, the water. 



