A FEBRUARY DAY
Reading edition
(There is a country saying that spring has not come until you can set your foot on seven daisies at once)
"O! How do you know When spring has come? Still falls the snow And the birds are dumb."
The grass will wear A greener tone, The thrush will dare To carol alone.
The silver rain Will warmly fall, The woods will gain The blackbird's call.
But the way to tell, And the only way, Is to find a dell Where the breezes play,
And seek and seek Where the daisy-bloom Shows white and meek Like a baby moon.
And when your foot treads With tender fear On seven white heads,— Then spring is here.
COXWOLD.