SELECT POETRY

Soon as the daisy decks the green,
Thy certain voice we hear ;

Hast thou a star to guide thy path,’
Or mark the rolling year ?

Delightful visitant! with thee*
T hail the time of flowers ;

And hear the sound of music sweet
From birds among the bowers.

The schoolboy, wandering in the wood
To pull the primrose gay,

Starts—the new voice of Spring to hear,
And imitates thy lay.

Soon as the pea puts on the bloom,
Thou fliest the vocal vale ;*

An annual guest in other lands,‘
Another Spring to hail.

Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green,
~ Thy sky is ever clear ;
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,

No winter in thy year!

Logan

* Hast thou a star, &c.—an allusion either to the pole star
which guides the mariner, or to the star which led the wise

men to the infant Saviour.
2 With thee—along with thee—when thou comest.

3 The old rhymes respecting the Cuckoo's arrival and

departure are—

“In April
Come he will
In July
He prepares to fly.”

* Aftez leaving England, the Cuckoo goes to North Africa

and Asia Minor.