THE DAISY'S LULLABY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 58

THE DAISY'S LULLABY.

Once, while in the twilight list'iiing, 'Mid a garden's perfumed air, fancy's faiiy lights were glist'ning Round a maiden sweet and fair.

Music, tender as a sunbeam, Flirted with the roses bright, Ferns were in their beauty woiui'ring At the stillness of the night. Then the Night Queen to tho 7">aisy Sa^ig this sweetly-scented strain — " "Daisy, Daisy, sleep my lov'd one, Mom shall bid thee wake ogam.

" 'Tis night— I must labour while roses are sleeping, And Love, m the arbour, with btars softly pooping, Is uhisp'rmg the talc of its tiuth to my keeping. Oh. glad is thcheart with its musical beating — To-night.

" Hea- my lullaby, sweet, Sleep, oh, sleep, Daisy, sleep.

" I, queen of night's iiowerland. Shall siug thee to sleep, Thy clreaui in her bower-lancl My sou" shall make sweet.

■ nii«a«iiw .—. - -- ,|J " My sister, the dew, Shall come while I sing, Daisy, Eweefc, sleen, oh, sleep, on lief transparent wing, And she'll cling While I sing, My fond Daisy to thee. " Night was made for dreams of Heaven— i I of night the key am given :

" Wafting my fragrance so iaxc, so fare,

Chasing the breezes — now here, now there» A so' ace for pleasure, a balm for caro In the midnight air.

" Sleep for the weary, Joy foe the free, Day for the sunbeams, Night is for me. " Musing with Venus, In solitude desp, With moonbeams between its, Oh, sloep, Daisy, sleep! " ily song of thy slumber, dear Daisy, is done, Thy petals, phik-tipjj'd, loudly closp one by one. The hour of my reigning glides silently on Like the moon, And thou, thou shalt waken away from ma soon.

All too soon." This, the maiden heard whilst list'ning In her garden's perfumed air, And the diamonds that were glist'ning Lit the arbour everywhere. — J. SL Dnneclin, 1897.