TOTHE DAISY.

TOTHE DAISY.

Gentle flower, young April’s pride,Say not Nature hath deniedThee her bounty or her grace,Though thou lack the Rose’s face.Where she spreads her carpet greenThere thy maiden form is seen,Drest in robes of purest white,Ever constant in her sight,But at will to wanton wild,Like a playful darling child.Thee she tends in summer days,And the nibbling ewes that grazeSpare to crop her favourite:And the Fairies, when by nightTheir green paths they quaintly tread,Walk not o’er thy sleeping head.

Gentle flower, young April’s pride,Say not Nature hath deniedThee her bounty or her grace,Though thou lack the Rose’s face.Where she spreads her carpet greenThere thy maiden form is seen,Drest in robes of purest white,Ever constant in her sight,But at will to wanton wild,Like a playful darling child.Thee she tends in summer days,And the nibbling ewes that grazeSpare to crop her favourite:And the Fairies, when by nightTheir green paths they quaintly tread,Walk not o’er thy sleeping head.

Gentle flower, young April’s pride,Say not Nature hath deniedThee her bounty or her grace,Though thou lack the Rose’s face.

Gentle flower, young April’s pride,

Say not Nature hath denied

Thee her bounty or her grace,

Though thou lack the Rose’s face.

Where she spreads her carpet greenThere thy maiden form is seen,Drest in robes of purest white,Ever constant in her sight,But at will to wanton wild,Like a playful darling child.

Where she spreads her carpet green

There thy maiden form is seen,

Drest in robes of purest white,

Ever constant in her sight,

But at will to wanton wild,

Like a playful darling child.

Thee she tends in summer days,And the nibbling ewes that grazeSpare to crop her favourite:And the Fairies, when by nightTheir green paths they quaintly tread,Walk not o’er thy sleeping head.

Thee she tends in summer days,

And the nibbling ewes that graze

Spare to crop her favourite:

And the Fairies, when by night

Their green paths they quaintly tread,

Walk not o’er thy sleeping head.


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