STRING FLOWERS 



" For, lo, the winter is past; the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the 

 singing of birds is come." 



Solomon's Song ii. 11, 12. 



The flowerets of the early Spiing, 



The firstlings of the year, 

 "WTiat gladness to the soul they bring 



As blithely they appear ; 



The Celandine, the Aconite, 



Primrose, and Crocus gay. 

 The bending Snow-drop milky white '^, 



Pale CoAVslip and sweet May. 



"What cliildlike glee is o'er us shed 



When first the eye hath seen 

 The Yiolet raising up her head — 



Our little Paiiy-queen. 



« " Galanthus," the botanical name of snow-drop, means " milk-flower." 

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