A TREASURY OF STORIES, JINGLES AND RHYMES,

THE WATER-LILY.

HE Water-lily has a heart of gold,
But yet she hides a secret never told;
The dragon-fly could tell it if he would;

The piping sand-lark too has understood!

She loves the burning sun, she loves the shade;
Her lonely mystery makes me half afraid:
When I my eager hands reach out to her,

She floats away,—a fairy voyager!

I only know, before the lily blooms,

A long time she must sleep in watery glooms;.

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