TEXT-BOOK OF FLOWERS 
lildish G1 s 3. Buttercups 
Childhood in the height of glee, 
Wouldst thou see? 
Mark it on the grassy lea, 
Where the Buttercups are springing, 
Golden bright ; 
And their flight 
Countless butterflies arc winging. 
Acacia 
Chaste Love, 
White with faintest crimson flusn, oh, •well 
Thy blossoms the first dawn of love may tell, 
Agnus Castus 
Chastity, 
The chaste Diana, as old Chaucer tells, 
In that sweet tale “ The Flower and the Leaf, 
Bore in her hand an Agnus Castus bough ; 
And all the ladies of her company 
Carried this emblem of pure maidenhood. 
Cheerfulness Michaelmas 
m old age, Daisy. 
As cheerfulness lengthens the summer of life 
So thou dost the season of flowers ; ^ 
When the year waxeth old, thou with beauty art 
rife. 
And thou smilest, though dark the sky lours. 
und h er e adve n r e s?ty, Chrysanthemum. 
Another fair flower that illumines the scene, 
When the tempest of winter is near; 
’Mid the frowns of adversity, cheerful of mien. 
And gay, when all’s dark and severe. 
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