AMONG THE DAISIES.

Lay her down among the daisies,

With the fringes of her eyes,

Softer than their silver petals,

Closed for blissful reveries.

Fold her little hands in whiteness

As in prayer on her breast;

Fear not for their folded lightness

On the heart unmoving pressed,

For that heart of angel brightness,

Tired so early, lies at rest.

Tired so early!—when the dawning

Glimmered white-winged through the room,

And the skies were half awaking,

Half in fading starlit gloom,

From the heaven of the starlight

Came the angels of the dawn;

And the morning winds were sighing,

And the curtains eastward drawn,

And her sleeping face looked brighter,

And a whispering sob said—‘Gone!’

All the daisies were unfolding

In the fields, where never more

Shall the rapture of her child-life

Run in shout and laughter o’er.

Tired so early!—she has gathered

All her gladness in swift space,

She has sung her song and ended,

Childlike turning pleading face

Back to home when joys are weary—

Toward the one familiar place.

Lay her low among the daisies:

Angels knew her more than we;

They have led her home from wandering,

Tired with earthly revelry.

And above her daisied pillow

Let her simple tale be told:

Here the Lover of the lilies

Bade a little blossom fold;

He that wakes the flowers shall wake her,

White as snow, with heart of gold.

Helen Atteridge.

The Conductor of Chambers’s Journal begs to direct the attention of Contributors to the following notice:

1st. All communications should be addressed to the ‘Editor, 339 High Street, Edinburgh.’

2d. For its return in case of ineligibility, postage-stamps should accompany every manuscript.

3d. Manuscripts should bear the author’s full Christian name, Surname, and Address, legibly written; and should be written on white (not blue) paper, and on one side of the leaf only.

4th. Offerings of Verse should invariably be accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope.

If the above rules are complied with, the Editor will do his best to insure the safe return of ineligible papers.

Printed and Published by W. & R. Chambers, 47 Paternoster Row, London, and 339 High Street, Edinburgh.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] For an account of this interesting repository of crime, see ‘The National Album’ in Chambers’s Journal for October 18, 1879.

[Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text:

Page 207: Angelos to Angeles—“Los Angeles”.]