Wild flowers and where they grow . down in thepurple nectaries; striking rose-leaves against their foreheads,to hear the popping sound as the petals burst; makingbaskets of burdocks ; picking open pansies, to see the oldwoman who sits inside washing her feet All these things, as with mutual understanding, I supposethey did And did they not make chains of bulrushes; anddaisy chains ; and pick out the savory seeds from the headsof that dear New England bush, the sweet fern ? And didthey not hunt for four-leaved clovers (older folks dothat! ), from some belief, transmitted as mysteriouslv as. A S
Wild flowers and where they grow . down in thepurple nectaries; striking rose-leaves against their foreheads,to hear the popping sound as the petals burst; makingbaskets of burdocks ; picking open pansies, to see the oldwoman who sits inside washing her feet All these things, as with mutual understanding, I supposethey did And did they not make chains of bulrushes; anddaisy chains ; and pick out the savory seeds from the headsof that dear New England bush, the sweet fern ? And didthey not hunt for four-leaved clovers (older folks dothat! ), from some belief, transmitted as mysteriouslv as. A SYMBOL IN GOLD ANDGHEEN. SOU A W-PLANTS AND PURPLE A VPNS. 63 Free Masonry, that good luck will come with the finding ?And did they not make thistle-balls and festoons of oakleaves ? And what country child is there who does not knowby actual proof what a pleasant acid the tender beech-leaveshave ? And was there ever one amongthem who has not been off in / early summer afteryoung ivory ? I used to thinkthat such an unac-countable name forcheckerberry. Whywas it ivory, un-less from the stupid,blundering misnomerof some ignorant per-son ? And, after all. to leain that ivory
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