Flower Pieces and other poems By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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I. DAISY.
O Daisy—‘Day's Eye’—on this New Year's Day
Opening thy circlet on our grassy mount
To greet the low-arch'd Sun far south-away,
As mystically perfect each small ray
As the vast billow of light and life whose fount,
Glorious beyond conception, yet doth count
Only as one flow'r in God's garden,—yea,
Face, little Bloom, our King-Orb, front to front.
Opening thy circlet on our grassy mount
To greet the low-arch'd Sun far south-away,
As mystically perfect each small ray
As the vast billow of light and life whose fount,
Glorious beyond conception, yet doth count
Only as one flow'r in God's garden,—yea,
Face, little Bloom, our King-Orb, front to front.
Ye both are creatures of one substance wrought
In deeps beyond our subtlest exploration,
Thence into living form and due relation
Lifted by power that works in beauty: nought
So made but with its home too in Man's thought,
Microcosm of the whole divine creation.
In deeps beyond our subtlest exploration,
Thence into living form and due relation
Lifted by power that works in beauty: nought
So made but with its home too in Man's thought,
Microcosm of the whole divine creation.
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