Wild flowers and where they grow . along a certain mowing-field ; nor how, on a morning dripping dew on us from everyladen bough, we rode on a cross-road which was a s;reenlane and nothing more, threading in and out. now in sunshine THE CARDINALS FLOWER. 127 and then in shade; nor how close the red lilies grew besidethe track; nor how the daisies stood on the grassy ridcrebetween the rutswhich wheels hadworn, standing sotall that theyreached the horsesbreast; how wewatched them bendtheir heads as wepressed againstthem, and, when wehad gone on. sweepback uninjured. All the mid-summer days, and
Wild flowers and where they grow . along a certain mowing-field ; nor how, on a morning dripping dew on us from everyladen bough, we rode on a cross-road which was a s;reenlane and nothing more, threading in and out. now in sunshine THE CARDINALS FLOWER. 127 and then in shade; nor how close the red lilies grew besidethe track; nor how the daisies stood on the grassy ridcrebetween the rutswhich wheels hadworn, standing sotall that theyreached the horsesbreast; how wewatched them bendtheir heads as wepressed againstthem, and, when wehad gone on. sweepback uninjured. All the mid-summer days, and summer mead-ows, and waysides off wherecountry roads go, were cheerfulwith those pure faces ; and we,too, thought that nothing lessthan a blue and white ginger-pot full of daisies was muchsatisfaction. But that one field, it is so sun-fixed, so photographed, onmy mental vision that I never need be, I never am, with-out daisies. These are perpetual blossoms; they are with methe whole year round; they never fade; their time is now,. BUT THE BANK WAS STEEP. 128 WILD FLOWERS and to-morrow, and every day, if I choose, as I do, to seethem : swaying on their slim stalks, white, open-faced, sunny,beautiful, on a green mede, as fair to the eye as thatwhich Chaucer praised. He, of all the singers, seems most
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