THE DAISY. 
By dimpled brook and fountain brim. 
The wood-nymphs, decked with daisies trim. 
Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. 
Milton’s Comus. 
- in the spring and play-time of the year. 
That calls the unwonted villager abroad 
With all her little ones, a sportive train, 
To gather kingcups in the yellow mead, 
And prank their hair with daisies. 
Cowper. 
The daisy scattered on each mead and down, 
A golden tuft within a silver crown ; 
Fair fall that dainty flower ! and may there be 
No shepherd graced that doth not honour thee ! 
W. Browne. 
For scarcely on Devonia’s genial sky 
The faithful daisy shuts her watchful eye ! 
Carrington. 
