The Ox-eye Daisy.
(Chrysanthemum leucanthemum.)
The Ox-eye Daisies show their beauty now!
Graceful in shape and colours how they grow
Wherever now one either walks or drives
In rustic places: Nature’s glories they, 5
With silver petals round a disk of gold;
Mis-valued only ‘cause they are not sold
For money’, to the free are free alway,
And need no labour for their cultivation.
When will we learn that God has freely given 10
All things we need to make this earth a heaven:
But the great curse of ev’ry age and nation
Has been and is (this to your children teach)
We under-value treasures placed within our reach.
George Markham Tweddell
[Sonnets on Trees and Flowers, p. 65.] Also published in
The Masonic Review, October, 1891.
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