The Daffodil 



plained. In the first place, they in some 

 degree represent water, and make upon 

 us to some extent the cool delicious im- 

 pression of actual water ; and, in the 

 second place, they make us feel instinc- 

 tively, as by the signs of some universal 

 language, that water is not far distant. 

 We are led to think of it in a dim, ideal 

 way, not as it actually exists, with all 

 sorts of inconveniences, as of mud and 

 muddy borders, but in its purity and life- 

 giving freshness. Something of the same 

 expression, though in a less degree, may 

 be found in the leaves of Corydalis bulbosa, 

 or in those of the common Columbine. 



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