The Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia).
More graceful than the Harebell growing wild.
It help’d to form my posy when a child,
And I now love to gather it to be
Part of a grandchild’s; for I would fain to teach 5
The love of flowers to all. With fancy free,
One may imagine fairy minstrelsy
Chiming from those frail bells: to all and each
They seem to ring out in the willing ear
Death to all evil, long life to all good; 10
That we have need of more than clothes and food
To truly live; and ev’ry passing year
Should find our love of beauty wax more strong;
And our whole lives should be sweet as a poet’s song.
George Markham Tweddell
[Sonnets on Trees and Flowers, p. 10.] Also published in Yorkshire
Gazette, October 10th, 1885. Texas Masonic Journal, Fort Worth,
Texas, July, 1886. Northern Weekly Gazette, Oct. 23/97.
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