POETRY.
MICHAELMAS DAISIES.
DAISIES on the emerald lawn, Daisies rosy-white for dawn,- Rosy-white for summer's dawn ; Michaelmas daisies grey and drear, Dusk in the dusky close of the year: Michaelmas daisies for close of the year.
The year is old, and the weary wind Withers its glory leaf by leaf ; Gone is the garland that April twined, Gone June roses, and August sheaf.
The apples are gone from the orchard boughs, Faded the creeper's tangled grace ; The bitter blast from its rest must rouse, For Winter comes on apace, apace.
The old year yearns for its daisied dawn, All golden bright and rosy white : Dreams of the daisies, like stars on the lawn, And makes the& again in the dusk of its night.
Daisies on the emerald lawn,
Daisies rosy-white for dawn,—
Rosy white for summer's dawn ; Michaelmas daisies grey and drear, Dusk for the dusky close of the year : Michaelmas daisies for close of the year.
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