To make a May-time of my sorrows slain.


XXV.
TOKEN FLOWERS.

Oh, not the daisy, for the love of God!

Take not the daisy; let it bloom apace

Untouch'd alike by splendour or disgrace

Of party feud. Its stem is not a rod;

And no one fears, or hates it, on the sod.

It laughs, exultant, in the Morning's face,