AUTUMN WILD FLOWERS. 205 



The mountain and moorland are somewhat gayer, and 

 the visitor to the sea-shore will find a world of flowers 

 yet in bloom. The ferns are in all their graceful 

 luxuriance, and though some of the grasses are 

 withered, others yet bend their laden panicles to the 

 wind. 



" A blade of silverhair grass nodding slowly 

 In the soft wind, the thistle's purple crown, 

 The ferns, the rushes tall, and mosses lowly," 



alone adorn the landscape of a late autumn day 



