DAISY. 
47 
a little child playing in a green meadow. Dry 
thy tears, O Malvina! — the hero died covered 
with his arms; and the flower of thy hosom has 
given a new flower to the hills of Cromla. 
And the grief of Malvina was soothed hy 
these songs, and she repeated the song of the 
new-horn. 
Since that day the daughters of Morven have 
consecrated the Daisy to infancy. It is, they 
say, the flower of innocence, the flower of the 
new-born. 
