THE DAFFODIL. 
Botanical Name, Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. —Class, 
Hexandria .—Order Monogynia. — Flowers, yellow.— 
Native place, England. 
.Sentiment. 
EEGRET. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The Daffodil opens its bloom in the stormy 
month of March, and, as if terrified at its 
blustering birthday, completes its growth and 
hastens away, teaching us the moral lesson, 
that early maturity generally prognosticates 
early death, and leaving us to regret that 
quickly matured beauty is always the com¬ 
panion of premature decay. 
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