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rather unobservant townsmen who would never 

 have found a four-leaved clover, lived they 

 ever so long. And that, by the way, is my 

 test of a careful and accurate observer the 

 finding of these luck-leaves, which are really 

 not at all uncommon. 



Herrick loved all flowers equally apple 

 blossoms, tulips, carnations, primroses gilly 

 flowers. To him they were smiling and 

 innocent maidens, whose charms the free- 

 spoken old divine was never tired of praising. 



We think of Addison and the London of 

 his brilliant day together, but for all that he 

 knew of the manners of the great world he 

 knew this also: "There is not a bush in 

 bloom within a mile of me, which I am not 

 acquainted with, nor scarce a daffodil or 

 violet that withers in my neighbourhood with- 

 out my missing it. I walk home in this 

 temper of mind through several fields and 

 meadows with an unspeakable pleasure, not 

 without reflecting on the bounty of Provi- 

 dence which has made the most pleasing 

 and the most beautiful objects the most 

 common," and " I value my garden more 

 for being full of blackbirds than of cherries 



