...life, you then are prized ; thus prized are poets too. WALTI« SAVAOI LAKDOE. TO THE DANDELION. DKAB common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...uphold— High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they Ад Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth !...

...duty man with listless spirit stands, Erelong the Great Avenger takes the work from out his hands. TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st...and, full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyeil that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May...

...and more familiar fiower may be properly quoted here as a tail-piece to this miniature essay : — " Dear common flower that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...and full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoy'd that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May...

...it, for its seed's sake, " Couronne de pretre." The poet Lowell thus celebrates its praise : — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, behold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not...

...heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. William Wordsworth: 1770-1850. (See page 52.) TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st...Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge2 of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers,3...

...beside the way, 'ringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, I'hich children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they .n El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round [ay match iu wealth —...

...dandelion. The last, 1 think, is the most pleasing of these poems : — " Dear common flower, that growest beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May." The dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge of May. It comes when the grass is short, and...

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...freed From life, you then are prized ; thus prized ar» poets too. WALTER SJTVAOK LAN DOB. So tljc Dandelion. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside...o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, tiold mich as thine ne'er drew the Spanish prow Through the primeval hush of Imlian ««is; Nor. wrinkled...

...bravery ! Thy songs were made for the pure and free, They shall never sound in slavery ! ' ' Moore. TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st...High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado on the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth ; thou art more...