26 JULY WILD FLOWERS. 



"In the cool and quiet nooks, 

 By the side of running brooks ; 



In the forest' s green retreat, 

 With the branches over head, 



Nestling at the old tree' s feet, 

 Choose we there our mossy bed. 



On tall cliffs that woo the breeze. 



Where no human foot-step presses, 

 And no eye our beauty flees, 

 ' There we wave our ni aiden tresses. ' ' 



J. M. L. 



Sillery, 1st July, 1884. 



