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THE WEE FLOWER. 
But when the bare and wintry woods we see J 
What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? ’! 
So serious should my youth appear among 
The thoughtless throng; 
So would I seem, amid the young and gay, 
_ More grave than tiiey ; 
That in my age as cheerful I might be 
As the green winter of the holly tree 
—Southey. 
TI-IE WEE FLOWER. 
A bonnie wee flower grew green in the 
wuds, 
Like a twinkling wee star amang the cluds ; 
And the langer it leevit, the greener it grew. 
For ’twas lulled by the winds, and fed by 
the dew. 
Oh, fresh was the air where it reared its 
head, 
Wi’ the radiance and odours its young leaves 
shed. 
When the morning sun rose frae his east¬ 
ern ha’, 
This bonnie wee flower was the earliest of a’ 
