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language of flowers. 
THE DAISY OE THE DALE. 
YOUR INNOCENCE AND SINCERITY WOULD MAKE 
RETIREMENT HAPPY. 
Emblems. 
INNOCENCE— DAISY: SINCERITY— FERN: HAPPY 
RETIREMENT —WILD HAREBELL. 
“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 hook and my devotion : 
Now have I then, too, this condition. 
That, of the flowers in the mead. 
Then I love most those flowers, white and red, 
Such that men call daisies in our town.” 
Written by Chatjceb 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 
