66 INNOCENCE. 
DAISY. 
Bellis. 
Language IIIWOCENCE. 
Innocent maid and snow-white flower, 
"Well are ye paired in your opening hour ; 
Thus should the pure and lovely meet, 
Stainless with stainless, and sweet with sweet. 
Throw it aside in thy weary hour ; 
Throw to the ground the fair white flower ; 
Yet as thy smiling years depart. 
Keep that white and innocent heart. 
Bryan 
Soft as the memory of buried love. 
Pure as the prayer which childhood wafts above. 
Was she the daughter of that rude old chief. 
Byko 
A mind rejoicing in the light 
Which melted through its graceful bower, 
Leaf after leaf serenely bright, 
And stainless in its holy white. 
Unfolding like a morning flower. 
Whittiek. 
I wish the bud would never blow ! 
'Tis prettier and purer so : 
It blushes through its bower of green 
And peeps above the mossy screen, 
So timidly, I cannot bear 
To have it open to the air ! 
Mrs. Osgood. 
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