...feel for it as if it were a beautiful child too rudely treated. Wee, modest crimson-tipped flower, Thou's met me in an evil hour, For I maun crush amang...stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonie gem. But even here he cannot, as "Wordsworth does, leave the daisy and its fate alone....

...us, And ev'n Devotion! BLPA; EnRP; FaFP; InvP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NOEC; OxBS; Prim To a Mountain Daisy 59 I pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. (I. 1—6) 60 Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless...

...lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion! To A Mountain Daisy1 ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, I 786 Wee. modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, thou's met me...stoure thy slender stem: to spare thee now is past my pow'r, thou bonie gem. Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, the bonie lark, companion meet, bending thee...

...Burns, ed. J. Logie Robertson (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), pp. 113-114. The full title is "To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the plough, in April, 1786." In the seventh stanza, Burns compares the poet's fate to that of the maid: "Such is the fate of simple...

...lines still unidentified (Parker 2:215). In his first lecture, in 1857, Melville quoted both Burns 's "To a Mountain Daisy, On turning one down with the plough, in April 1786" and Byron's Cbilde Harold's Pilgrimaged At the funeral of his Unitarian father-in-law in 1861 Melville...

...his plough: "Wee modest, crimson-tipped flower Thou 's met me in an evil hour For I maun crush, among the stoure thy slender stem; To spare thee now is past my power, thou bonnie gem. " Or there was that little field mouse scurrying away, that "Wee, sleekit,...