140 I PARTAKE YOUR SENTIMENTS. 
partake warmly of the sentiments of that 
learned Baptist missionary, Dr. Carey, when he 
composed those beautiful lines, entitled “ The 
Daisy in India,” and which we here present to 
the reader, as they must awaken a kindred 
feeling in every heart where sensibility is not 
entirely extinguished ? Dr. Carey had expressed, 
Hit | in a letter to a botanical friend in England, the 
Hl pleasure he felt on observing a daisy spring up, 
unexpectedly, in his garden at Serampore, where 
he was stationed on his important duty. It 
HM Ail had been borne over the waters in some English 
| earth, in which other seeds were conveyed; 
and now in another clime it opened its ‘‘ crimson 
tipped flower” to the warm air of the east ; 
we can conceive the welcome surprise with 
which the little flower was greeted! Aye! 





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Thrice welcome, little English flower ! 
| Thy mother country’s white and red, 
WA In rose or lily, till this hour, 
HN) Never to me such beauty spread: 
i Transplanted from thine island-bed, 
A treasure in a grain of earth, 
Strange as a spirit from the dead, 
Thine embryo sprang to birth. 

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Thrice welcome, little English flower ! 
HA Whose tribes beneath our natal skies 
WA Shut close their leaves while vapours lower ; 
But when the sun’s gay beams arise, 



