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|| I) sunflower itself, opening in the sun’s rays, 
| and closing as they are withdrawn ; while its 
ial spring-time birth, its whiteness, its whole ex- 
: | pression, well answer to the idea of inno- t 
HHI | cence and childhood. It is found also in 
| | bloom every month in the year. 
| | | ‘* The rose has but a summer reign, 5 
| The daisy never dies.” 4 
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MH | It was worn in the knight’s scarf at the 




























Wi | tourney, and wreathed the brow of fair and , 
| || noble dames. ' 
i | ‘*Tn his scarf the knight the daisy bound, 
i | And dames at tourney shone with daisies crown’d.” 
| It was pre-eminently the flower of early 
| English poetry. Chaucer immortalized it ; i 
| il | and nearly all our greatest poets have paid ‘ 
| the graceful homage of verse to the flower, 
| | which had, doubtless, been the delight of y 
i their childhood. y 
HH | | The French name for the daisy (Margue- tn 
i | vue) must have enabled the gallants of past ‘ 
i | ages to pay many a compliment to fair ladies fo 
i | of the name. Thus we read that the “ ser- . 




