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DAISY. Clau 19. Order 2. A lovely little flower, cora- 



Bellis n ' (l " ' a ^ ur P- Flowers early, colors blue and 



white. 



BEAUTY AND INNOCENCE. 



The Daisy scattered on each mead and downe, 

 A golden tuft within a silver crown; 

 Fuire fell that dainty flower! and may there be 

 No shepherd graced that doth not honor thee. 



Brown*. 



SE.VTIMKNT. 



The star that gems life's morning sky, 



Smilo sweetly o'er thee now; 

 And flowers around thy pathway lie, 



And roses crown thy brow 

 That shod thrir delicate perfume 

 'Mid ringlets trembling like a plume; 

 While a deep witchery, soft and bright, 

 Is floating in those eyes of light. 



Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile 



Is mirrored on my dreams, 

 Like evening's sunset girded isle 



Upon her shadowed streams: 

 And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, 

 Like melody of spring-bird notes, 

 When the blue halcyon gently laves 

 His plumage in the flashing waves. 



I cannot gaze on aught that wears 



The beauty of the skies, 

 Or aught that in life's valley bears 



The hues of paradise; 

 I cannot look upon a star, 

 Or cloud that seems a seraph's car, 

 Or any form of purity 

 IJnmingled with a dronm of thee. 



P. Btnjamin. 



