“You’re nicer in your own bright gown; the little children love you.

Be the best buttercup you can, and think no flower above you.

Though swallows leave me out of sight, we’d better keep our places:

Perhaps the world would all go wrong with one too many daisies.

Look bravely up into the sky and be content with knowing

That God wished for a buttercup, just here where you are growing.”

—Sarah Orne Jewett.

OUR FLAG.

There are many flags in many lands,

There are flags of every hue,