Little streams have flowers a many, 

 Beautiful and fair as any ; 

 Typha strong, and green bur-seed ; 

 Willow-herb with cotton-seed ; 

 Arrowhead with eye of jet, 

 And the water violet. 

 There the flowering-bush you meet, 

 And the plumy meadow sweet, 

 And in places deep and stilly, 

 Marble-like, the water lily. 



MARY HOWITT. 



