12 DAFFODILS NARCISSUS 



his own image reflected from a mountain 

 brook 



"And looking for his corse we only found 

 A rising stalk with blossoms crowned." 



MODERN DAFFODILS THREE HUNDRED 

 YEARS OLD 



The praises of daffodils the trumpets 

 have been voiced only during the past three 

 centuries by Spenser, Shakespeare, Tenny- 

 son, Wordsworth, Keats, and other poets. A 

 good-sized volume might be filled with rhap- 

 sodical allusions and poetic descriptions from 

 the various writers about daffodils, all indica- 

 tive of the continued popularity of branches 

 of the narcissus family, throughout centuries 

 of time. Space, however, forbids our quo- 

 ting more than the following classic lines: 



" Daffodils that come before the swallow dares 

 And take the winds of March with beauty." 



Shakespeare in "Winter's Tale". 

 Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 



and such are daffodils." 



Keats. 



"A thing of beauty is a joy forever 

 "I wander'd lonely as a cloud 



That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 

 When all at once I saw a crowd, 



A host, of golden daffodils; 

 Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 



