WILD FLOWERS. 
BY ANNE PRATT. 
Why is it that I love the flowers 
That grow in woods, and lanes, and fields, 
Better than all the glowing ones 
The richly cultured garden yields ? 
Why is it that the daisy has 
A charm for me, all flowers above ; 
Or why the hawthorn’s fragrant breath, 
More than the myrtle’s do I love ? 
The cuckoo-flower and hyacinth, 
These blossoms of each woodland wild,_ 
The primrose and anemone, 
O, I have prized them from a child ! 
And still the odours that arise 
From clusters of the wild woodbine, 
Are sweeter, lovelier to me, 
*1 han scent of Eastern jessamine. 
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