WILD-FL O WER SONNE TS. 



SCARLET PIMPERNEL. 

 (AXAGALLIS.) 



T3 RIGHT little wayfarer, in scarlet cap 



With purple tuft atop, and doublet green, 

 Flora's pet page sometime thou mayst have been, 

 Fallen from favor by some strange mishap; 

 It touches me to note the calm content 

 With which thou dost accept thy lowly lot, 

 And makest gay some poor neglected spot 

 With thy glad presence : pitching thy small tent 

 Upon the farmer's homely garden-patch, 

 Or close beside the dusty roadside way ; 

 Heedless of high or low, if but a ray 

 Of heaven's golden sunshine thou canst catch ; 

 Watching and waiting, living not in vain, 

 O tiny prophet of the coming rain ! 

 JUNE. 



