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WHITE DAISY. 
THE WHITE DAISY. 
In the by-gone days of chivalry, when a lady wished 
to intimate to her lover that she was undecided whether 
she would accept his offer or not, she decorated her head 
with a frontlet of white daisies, which was understood to 
say, “ I will think of it.” 
An unknown poet has sung the daisy’s offering in verses 
so agreeable to our ears that we must even let our readers 
share the pleasure. 
Think of the flowers cull’d for thee, 
In vest of silvery white, 
When other flowers perchance you see, 
Not fairer, but more bright. 
Sweet roses and carnations gay, 
Have but a summer’s reign ; 
I mingle with the buds of May, 
Join drear December’s train. 
A simple unassuming flower, 
’Mid showers and storms I bloom ; 
I’ll decorate thy lady’s bower, 
And blossom on thy tomb. 
