THE DAISY OF THE DALE. 
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THE DAISY OF THE DALE. 
YOUR INNOCENCE AND SINCERITY WOULD MAKE 
RETIREMENT HAPPY 
Emblems. 
DAISY— innocence. FERN— sincerity. WILD HAREBELL- 
HAPPY RETIREMENT. 
“ When that the month of May 
Is coming, and that I do hear the birds sing, 
And that the flowers begin to spring, 
Farewell my book and my devotion : 
Now have I then, too, this condition, 
. That, of all the flowers in the mead, 
Then love I most those flowers, white and red, 
Such that men call daisies in our town.” 
Written by Chaucer nearly 500 years ago. 
Beautiful are the fields of England powdered over 
with Daisies, as Chaucer happily termed it nearly five 
hundred years ago,— those emblems of innocence— 
companions of the milk-white lambs—the first heav- 
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