FIELD FLOWERS 



however, and not so long ago, they 

 alone represented Nature's gladness. 

 Formerly, however, a few hundred 

 years ago, before their dazzling and 

 chilly kinswomen had come from the 

 Antilles, from India, from Japan, or be- 

 fore their own daughters, ungrateful 

 and unrecognizable, had usurped their 

 place, they alone enlivened the stricken 

 gaze, they alone brightened the cot- 

 tage porch, the castle precinfts, and 

 followed the lovers' footsteps in the 

 woods. But those times are no more; 

 and they are dethroned. They have re- 

 tained of their past happiness only the 

 names which they received when they 

 were loved. 

 And these names show all that they 



