, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., pp. 78, 79.)—Ed.
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To the Daisy
Composed 1802.—Published 1807
"Her[A] divine skill taught me this,
That from every thing I saw
I could some instruction draw,
And raise pleasure to the height
Through the meanest object's sight.
By the murmur of a spring,
Or the least bough's rustelling;
By a Daisy whose leaves spread
Shut when Titan goes to bed;
Or a shady bush or tree;
She could more infuse in me
Than all Nature's beauties can
In some other wiser man."
G. Wither.[1]
[Composed in the orchard, Town-end, Grasmere.—I. F.]
One of the "Poems of the Fancy."—Ed.