116 l'O.EU OJ' UU.Oll'I.A.riON A.IIID I'~OY.There s-rew pied wind-ftowere and violets,
Dawnee 1 tliose peul'd .Arcturi of the earth,
The constellated ftower that neve1· seta ;
Faint oxlips; tender blue-bella, at whoee birth
The sod scarce .heaved; a.od that tall ftower that wets
Ita mother's faoe with heaven-collected tears,
When the low wind, ita playmate's voice, it bears.
And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine,
Green cow-bind and the moonlight-colour'd May,
And cberry-bloeaoms, and white-cups, whoae wine
Waa the bright dew yet drain'd not by the day;
And wild roses, and ivy serpentine
With ita dark buds &nd leaves, wandering astray ;
And flowers azure, black, and streak'd with gold,
Fairer th&n &ny waken'd eyes behold.
And nearer to the river's trembling edge
There grow broad ftag.ftowcrs, purple prank.t with white.,
And stslTY river-buds among the sedge,
Alld ftoa.Ung water-lilies, broad and bright,
Which lit the oak that overhuntr the hedge
With moonlight beams of tbetr own watery light ;
And bulrushes, and reeJ.s of such deep green
A. eoothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen.
Metbonght that of these visionary dowers
1 made a nosegay, bound in such a way
That the same huea, which iJl their natural bowers
'Veremingled or opposed, the like array
K.,pt these impriaou'd children of the Houra
Within my hand-&nd then, elate and gny,
I haeten'd to the spot whence I had come,
That 1 might there present it-O I to Whom 1
Sam.~ET-
ta f~.e c!Jais~.
WtTB little here to do or see
Of things that in the great world be,
Daisy I again I talk to thee,
For thou ut worthy;
Thou unassuming Oomruon-place
Of Nature, with that homely face,
And :ret vt1tb something of a grace
Which Love makes for thee I