Millennial shepherds 'neath the thorn Had piped them to a world reborn, And danced Delight the dale along And up the daisied downs.

She stood leaning against the stone balcony, and gazing at the wonderful panorama of the valley and overlapping hills; where the little river threaded its untroubled course between daisied meadows and old orchards and red crumbling banks.

" BALLAD OF THE SEVEN O'CLOCK WHISTLE The daisied dawn is in the sky, And the young day still dew and dream, When on the innocent morning air There comes a terrifying scream;

And in a dream I charged, and in a dream I smote resistless; foemen in my path Fell unregarded, like the wayside flowers Clipped by the truant's staff in daisied lanes.

Along the margin of th' Atlantic main, Rocks pil'd on rocks yterminate the scene; Save here and there th' incroaching surges gain An op'ning grateful to the daisied green; Save where, ywinding cross the vale is seen A bubbling creek, that spreads on all sides round Its breezy freshness, gladding, well I ween, The op'ning flow'rets that adorn the ground, From her green margin to the ocean's utmost bound.

It was a daisied, daisied world.

It was a daisied, daisied world.

the spring rain That softly pelts the lattice, as with flowers, Will of its tears a daisied counterpane Weave for your rest, and all its sound of showers Makes of its sobbing low a cradle song: All tears avail

They ne'er might see again For Scotland's high and heathered hills, For mountain, loch, and glen For those who haply lay at rest Beyond the distant sea, Beneath the green and daisied turf Where they would gladly be!

Then she forgot them, and imagined she was picking daisies on the counterpane.

Amid such influences, the life of a cowherd could scarcely be lifted above that of the beasts he cared for; if his hunger and thirst were satisfied, he would ask no more than a pleasant, daisied meadow in summer, and a warm nook in the winter.

How many a young May-queen has been crowned under its roof, when the greensward was just daisied with the early flowers of spring!

Heedless now of blame or praises, 'Neath the sunshine and the daisies Dear, old Leo lies at rest.

may we deserve like praises When beneath the sun-kissed daisies We, like Leo, lie at rest!

White oxeye daisies in masses and groups, lilac-tinted thistles, and bright scarlet poppies grow in profusion among the tall wheat stalks.

In the rough grass fields tough, wiry bents, thistles with purple flowers, and the remnants of oxeye daisies on brittle stalks rise almost to the height of your knees.

There, reclining in the attitude of Hamlet at the feet of Ophelia, he rambled on from subject to subject, in a careless, graceful way, plucking up grass and picking daisies to pieces, as he talked, giving every now and then, from beneath the languid sweep of his heavy eyelashes, quick flashes of tender meaning, as fitful and beautiful as the "heat-lightnings" of summer twilights, and apparently as harmless.

And childhood's revelry was o'er, Upon the daisied hill.

The grass mounts high, but not higher than the oxeye daisies, the blue racemes of stachys, the mauve-coloured heads of scabious, the bladder-campions, the yellow buttercups and goat's-beard.

"Just like daisies all spread O'er a broad sunny mead

Lady Bird! fly away home" The field-mouse is gone to her nest, The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes, And the bees and the birds are at rest.

But half an hour has passed, and Jehu is again on the box, the nags as fresh as daisies, and as full as a corncob.

My Blouzelind's than gilliflower more fair, Than daisie, marygold, or kingcup rare.

The boat reappeared, but brother and sister had gone down in an embrace never to be parted; living through again, in one supreme moment, the days when they had clasped their little hands in love, and roamed the daisied fields together.

Breathe nottrespass not; Of this green and darkling spot, Latticed from the moon's beams, Perchance a distant dreamer dreams; Perchance upon its darkening air, The unseen ghosts of children fare, Faintly swinging, sway and sweep, Like lovely sea-flowers in its deep; While, unmoved, to watch and ward, Amid its gloomed and daisied sward, Stands with bowed and dewy head That one little leaden Lad.