TRE ANEMONE 
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CHAPTER XIV. 
Anemone, or W ind - -fiower — ^ Music of Nature — Wood 
Anemone — Blue Mountain Anemone — Basque - fiower 
Anemone — Wild Yellow Anemone — N aturalisation of 
Foreign Plants — • Corn Cockle — E umitory — Garden 
Anemones — Verses on Wood Anemones. 
And flowers — the fairy-peopled w^orld of flowers. 
Thou from the dust hast set that glory free ; 
Colouring the cowslip with the sunny hours, 
And pencilling the wood anemone : 
Silent they seem — yet each to thoughtful eye 
Glows with mute poesy ! 
— Mrs. Remans. 
Are you, my reader, one who loves music? Not tha,t 
music alone which is uttered by human voice, or swells 
from harp or lute ; but do you love the music of nature? 
If so, away to the woods in March. It is not merely to 
the song of the birds that your attention is invited. They 
are not yet carolling in full chorus ; though 
“ There’s a blackbird and one or two thrushes, 
And a far-off wind that rushes, 
And the cuckoo’s sovereign cry 
Fills all the hollow of the sky.” 
The robin sings loudly, and the ringdove coos softly to 
its mate. Nature is full of music ; but the winds, as they 
career among the tall trees, or sweep away the clouds, 
or raise the ocean in their fury, or softly stir the leaves 
and flowers, have the most varied and sonorous tones of 
any of her many melodies. “Did you never observe,” 
