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The Banner still red with the brave blood that won it. 
The tri-colored pennon of freedom’s wide wall— 
This flower, as emblem, shall blossom upon it, 
The fairest and dearest of all— 
The little white daisy, the humble wild daisy. 
The daisy that blossoms for all! 
Within her gold heart Truth and Justice are shining. 
Within her white petals Peace broods like a dove; 
From shore to shore reaching, threefold her roots’ teaching— 
“Equality! Liberty! Brotherly Love!” 
As soars our own eagle in pride of strong pinion, 
This test of our emblem shall reign over all, 
Till Liberty lifts o’er a world-wide dominion. 
The one Flag that never shall fall! 
Her Flag and her Flower— our National Flower, 
The Daisy that blossoms for all! 
—Minnie Gilmore. 
St. Louis, September 20,1890. 
l3)ame \J iolet. 
(DAME WORT.) 
A cruciferous plant of the genus Hes peris (II. matronalis), remark¬ 
able for fragrance, especially toward the close of day;—also called rocket. 
“Early Violets blue and white 
Dying for their love of light.” 
—Edwin Arnold. 
Vigilance—Watchfulness. 
“Be sober and watch.”—1 Pet., v, 8. 
TT S in the physical life, the infirm, by shielding their infirmities, pro- 
/-L long their lives for many years, even outgrow their weakness, and 
outlive the strong arid vigorous, so in our moral nature, the consciousness 
