HEARTSEASE AND DAISY—THE PLAYMATES. 29 
A dial chaste set there 
To show each radiant hour; 
A field astronomer— 
A sun-observing flower. 
The children with delight 
To meet the Daisy run.; 
They love to see how bright 
She shines upon the sun. 
Like lowly white-crowned queen 
Demurely doth she bend, 
And stands with quiet mien, 
The little children’s friend. 
She lifteth up her cup, 
She gazeth on the sky; 
Content, so looking up 
Whether to live or die; 
Content, in wind and cold, 
To stand, in shine or shower, — 
A white-rayed marigold, 
A golden-bosomed flower. 
II. Sutton. 
T HIS morn a fairy bower I passed, 
Where, sheltered from the northern blast. 
Grew many a garden gem; 
More lovely sure not Eden graced, 
Ere yet the primal curse had traced 
Ruin and blight on all, and placed 
Thorns on the rose’s stem. 
But nearer viewed, methought the bloom, 
Ev’n of this group, partook the doom 
Which all things earthly share; 
In one, the gayest of the gay, 
A hidden worm insidious lay, 
Whilst others born far, far away. 
Pined for their native air. 
