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Title: A Little Girl to her Flowers in Verse

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 7, 2007 [EBook #23404]

Language: English

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A
LITTLE GIRL
TO HER FLOWERS.
IN VERSE.

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.

London:
PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON,
GRACECHURCH STREET.
1828.

Price 1_s._ 6_d._ coloured.

[Illustration]

DAISY.

This little Daisy we all love,
Because it seems to say,
"I'm come to tell good girls and boys,
That Winter's gone away."

[Illustration]

SNOWDROP.

There is another flower, too,
I dearly love to see;
The little Snowdrop, peeping through
The frozen ground at me.

[Illustration]

PRIMROSE.

This is a pretty Primrose,
In shady lanes it grows;
And early in the pleasant spring,
In gardens too it blows.

[Illustration]

DAFFODIL.

Here is a formal Daffodil,
Though common, yet a favourite still;
It seems such joyous news to bring,
As harbinger of pleasant Spring.

[Illustration]

MAY-BLOSSOM.

Oh, beauteous, little May-blossom,
I am rejoiced that you are come,
To smile upon us once again,
After the winter's snow and rain.

[Illustration]

VIOLET.

How I do love the Violet!
Of all the flow'rs it is my pet;
How snug it hides its little head
In the green leaves of its low bed.

[Illustration]

LILY OF THE VALLEY.

Lowly Lily of the Vale,
To me you tell a useful tale:
You say, "Be pretty as you will,
Yet modesty is lovelier still."

[Illustration]

FORGET-ME-NOT.

"Forget me not:" no, lovely flow'r,
I'll think on thee for many an hour:
If I could paint, I'd copy thee;
Then t