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NATURE NOTES. 
Prince of Wales. Mr. J. E. Hating, in his work on ‘ Ostriches 
and Ostrich Farming,” has collected other interesting testimony 
to their use b}' both Romans and Greeks. The Eg} r ptian Queen 
Arsinoe, who lived before the times of Cleopatra, was represen- 
ted in a statue on Helicon, riding an ostrich, and Roman ladies 
are said to have kept birds for the same purpose. But though 
a full-grown ostrich is said to be able to bear the weight of a 
man, and one has been known to draw a light kind of carriage, 
it is for its feathers that it will always be prized. 
“ Ostrich feathers have added grace to womanly loveliness 
since the days of Cleopatra,” says Mr. Nathan; and it is a 
pleasure to be assured that there is no need from motives of 
humanity that a fashion, to be measured by so many centuries, 
should be discarded by the women of the Victorian era. 
A. M. Buckton. 
THE DAFFODIL: AN ANTHOLOGY. 
When daffodils begin to peer, — 
With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, — 
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year ; 
For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale. 
IVinler’s Tale , Act iv., Sc. 2. 
Daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty. 
Ik, Act iv., Sc. 3. 
When a daffodil I see 
Hanging down her head t’wards me, 
Guess I may what I must be : 
First, I shall decline my head ; 
Secondly, I shall be dead ; 
Lastly, safely buried. 
R. Herrick. 
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see 
You haste away so soon : 
As yet the early rising Sun 
Has not attain’d his noon. 
Stay, stay, 
Until the hasting day 4 
Has run 
But to the even-song ; 
And, having pray’d together, we 
Will go with you along. 
We have shoTt time to stay as you, 
We have as short a Spring ; 
As quick a growth to meet decay 
As you, or any thing. 
We die, 
As your hours do, and dry 
Away 
Like to the Summer’s rain ; 
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew ; 
Ne’er to be found again. 
R. Herrick. 
