DAFFODIL. 



(Continued.) 



Answer. 



But now I am returned, and that war thoughts 



Have left their places vacant, in their rooms 



Come thronging soft and delicate desires, 



All prompting me how fair young Hero is. . . Shales. 



Most fair, 



Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms 

 Such as will enter at a lady's ear, 

 And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart ? . same. 



DAHLIA. 

 Dahlia. 



For tver thine. ^ or ever thine ! 'mid fashion's heartless throng, 



In courtly bowers, at folly's gilded shrine. 

 Smiles on my cheek, light words upon my tongue, 

 My deep heart still is thine for ever thine. 



A. A. Watts. 



Amidst the world, the only one 

 Whose light, among so many lights, 

 Was like that star, on starry nights 

 The seaman singles from the sky, 

 To steer his bark for ever by. . . 



Moore. 



For ever thine, whate'er this heart betide ; 



For ever thine, where'er our lot be cast. A. A. Watts. 



In pleasure's dream, or sorrow's hour, 



In crowded hall or lonely bower, 



The business of my soul shall be, 



For ever to remember thee ! Moore. 



DAISY, Red. 



Bellis. 



Beauty unknown to 

 the possessor. 



The beauty that is borne here in her face, 



The bearer knows not of. ...... " . . Shaks. 



Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 



Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. same. 



Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shapes, her features, 

 Seem to be drawn by love's own hands, by love 

 Himself in love ........... Dryden. 



Is she not more than painting can express, 



Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? . . Rowe. 



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As lamps burn silent, with unconscious light, 



So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; 



Unairning charms with edge resistless fall, 



And she who means no mischief, does it all. A. Hill. 



