134 THE BROOM-BUSH 



but, as one, 



More deeply grieved : for he was gone 

 Whose light I hailed when first it shone 



And showed my youth 

 How Verse may build a princely throne 



On humble truth. 



The lesson he received from the Addresses to the field mouse 

 and to the mountain daisy appears again and again in much of 

 Wordsworth's poetry. Is it too much to say that to that lesson 

 is traceable the most enduring, perhaps the chief, feature of his 

 message as a poet to mankind ? 



91. one Scottish poet says . . . another nobly sings. Thomson 

 and Campbell respectively. 



130. Linnaeus. The famous Swedish botanist (1707-78). The 

 furze is scarcely known in Sweden. It was the furze bloom on 

 Wimbledon Common, London, that so enraptured Linnaeus. 



132. field of cloth of gold. Near Guisnes, in France, but in the 

 English dominion, where Henry VIII met Francis I, in 1520, 

 both kings with their imposing retinues presenting a ' blaze 

 of grandeur ' that almost impoverished two nations. 



EXERCISES 



1. Compare and contrast the broom with the whin. 



2. Mention some domestic uses of the broom. 



THE OAK AND THE BROOM 

 A PASTORAL 



His simple truths did Andrew glean 



Beside the babbling rills: 

 A careful student he had been 



Among the woods and hills. 



