KINGCUPS 



DOWN in the marshy meadow-land royal kingcups 

 are ablaze, they gild the sluggish swampy stream, 

 2fold-lace its half-dried mud, and make the meadow 



O 



stretch of lingering daffodils look pale, and the cow- 

 slips almost green beside their handsome clumps. 

 The contrast of the deep rich green of their lovely 

 leaves adds much to their beauty. 



It is wonderful how Nature moulds the leaves of 

 plants to suit the flowers. We should not blend the 

 spiky blades of daffodils in all their bluish silver sheen 

 with bold marsh-marigolds, nor place their rounded 

 lobes beside the lilies of the field, yet each makes 

 each complete, just where they are and as they are. 





KINGCUPS 



