THE WILD FLOWER*
I founi «t wild flower in a ferny dell, Perfect and pure, beside a- woodland stream, ' Tho wild bes gathered nectar from its 'bell; ' And as I mused I heard that floweret say, ''I dream "Of garden ways, -where I might, lowly still, From prouder garden beauties bloom apart.'* I took h«r from tho forest and the rill, And set her in the border. Ah! my wearjj heart! TYhc'G is the lowly floweret that was fain To breathe the message of lowliness an& lov«s ? I wander :lown the woodland glade again ,* The slow stream murmurs: by the leaves are stirred above, The wild bea droneth o'er the seeded grass; Gone is the charm, for ever lost and gone? "Why did I bear that floweret hence? Alas! Among th>, ferns I sit and muse alon£, forlorn. —Charles Oscar Palm*, Heiljcit, July, 1906. — A judge in the Cterkenwell County, Court has decided that a bicycl© for a do* met tic servant ib not a necessity.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2734, 8 August 1906, Page 81
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166THE WILD FLOWER* Otago Witness, Issue 2734, 8 August 1906, Page 81
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