POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
91 
THE DAFFODIL. 
This flower, more frequently mentioned by the older poets 
than perhaps any other native plant, blooms in rather 
moist woods and thickets in March—its growth being rapid, 
and duration short. It waves in rich profusion in marshy 
spots on the borders of some of the lakes of Westmoreland. 
Fair Daffodils, to see 
You haste away so soon; 
As yet the early rising sun 
Has not attained his noon: 
Stay, stay, 
Dntil the hastening day 
Has run 
But to the even-song; 
And having prayed together, we 
Will go with you along. 
We have short time to stay, as you; 
We have as short a spring, 
As quick a growth to meet decay, 
As you, or any thing; 
We die, 
As your hours do; and dry 
Away 
Like to the summer’s rain, 
Or as the pearls of morning dew. 
Ne’er to be found again. 
Herrick. 
