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COWSLIP. 
- rich in vegetable gold, 
From calyx pale the freckled Cowslip born, 
Receives in amber cup the fragrant dews of 
morn. 
Anon. 
- - Cowslips wan, that hang the pensive 
head. 
Milton. 
ON FINDING AN EARLY COWSLIP. 
ANON. 
It is the same ! it is the very scent 
That bland, yet luscious, meadow-breathing 
sweet 
Which I remember when my childish feet, 
With a new life’s rejoicing spirit, went 
Thro’ the deep grass with wild flow’rs richly 
blent, 
That smiled to high Ileav’n from their verdant 
seat. 
But it brings not to thee such joy complete : 
Thou canst not see, as I do, how we spent 
In blessedness, in sunshine, and in flow’rs, 
The beautiful noon ; and then, how seated 
round 
The odorous pile, upon the shaded ground. 
