St Nicholas [serial] . She has virgins many,Fresh and faire;Yet you areMore sweet than any. Yare the Maiden Posies,And so gractTo be plactFore damask roses. Yet though thus respected,By and byYe do lie,Poore girles, neglected. : 77-1 SONGS OF SPRING. 463 « hey arc home-flowers to almost everybody; and rose, the shamrock, and the thistle are of our sisters is the home-flowers that have most poetry in across the water; and certainly this is too pretty iem, after all. an-idea to be altogether neglected. This is why we know the English cowslips and This flowers shy way of hiding its pink and. >
St Nicholas [serial] . She has virgins many,Fresh and faire;Yet you areMore sweet than any. Yare the Maiden Posies,And so gractTo be plactFore damask roses. Yet though thus respected,By and byYe do lie,Poore girles, neglected. : 77-1 SONGS OF SPRING. 463 « hey arc home-flowers to almost everybody; and rose, the shamrock, and the thistle are of our sisters is the home-flowers that have most poetry in across the water; and certainly this is too pretty iem, after all. an-idea to be altogether neglected. This is why we know the English cowslips and This flowers shy way of hiding its pink and. >A! aisies better than our own May-flowers, almost,hey have been the familiar friends of poets andttle children for centuries; and it seems to us,ho read English poetry perhaps more than we dour own, as if we, too, knew them. By and by,hen our broad New World is as much a home tos inhabitants as England is to the English, welall have a home-poetry of our prairies and sierrasll sweet to us as theirs is to them. In some parts1 the country we have it already. It is very natural that in New England the May-ower should be sung of by the poets. The trailingrbutus, or ground-laurel, is our May-flower; theilgrims, landing from their Mayflower ship,lust have seen its leaves peeping out of the snow;tad the little Pilgrim-children must have gathereds fragrant blossoms in spring, for it is found/erywhere in the Plymouth woods. Whittier has poem which contains such a fancy. Some one has suggested that the May-flowerught to be our national emblem, as the lily, the white sweetness under the falle
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