James Russell Lowell,
Suggestive programs for special day exercises…
(1898)
“ JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o’erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth’s ample round May match in wealth—thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be. ”
