66 WILD FLOWERS. 



" Open to Spring's refreshing air, 

 In sweetest, smiling bloom declare 

 Your Maker, and my God." 



The Welsh bard, to whom I have elsewhere re- 

 ferred,* has 



" Blodau'r dydd, pan font yn dryfrith, 

 Ar y ddol y manwlith : 

 Megis gemmau rhain a welir, 

 Yn addurno gwisg y giasdir 



Maent yn glws ! 



maent yn glws !"f 



Sutton's lines are : 



" A gold and silver cup 



Upon a pillar green, 

 Earth holds her daisy up 



To catch the sunshine in. 

 A dial chaste, set there 



To shew each radiant hour : 

 A field astronomer 



A sun-observing flower. 

 The children with delight 



To meet the daisy run ; 

 They love to see how bright 



She shines upon the sun. 

 Like lowly, white-crowned queen 



Demurely doth she bend, 

 And stands with quiet mien 



The little children's friend." 



* V. infrd, " Violets." 



t " The daisies teeming on the dewy plain, 



Shine out like jewels on the earth's green robe 

 They are beautiful ! 

 Oh, they are beautiful ! " 

 In Yorkshire the daisy is called bairnwort. 



