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The witch anointed her shoulder with the charm, after having first made a drop of potion out of the bubbles in it. This potion she drank, and was healed of her wound and her weariness, and of all desires except a desire to sleep with her face among the daffodils. She was the most beautifully alone person in the world that morning; nobody could have found her.
The room was full of hyacinths and daffodils, and she herself looked like a spring flower, as she sat on the sofa among the green silk cushions, wrapped in a pale parma violet tea-gown. The butler announced "Captain Ardayre," and Denzil came in slowly, and murmured "How do you do?" But as soon as the door was closed upon him, he started forward, forgetting his stiff side.
Was there ever a more beautiful name in the world than daffodil? Say it over to yourself, and then say "agapanthus" or "chrysanthemum," or anything else you please, and tell me if the daffodils do not have it.
Their salt meats were not the worst of it; there was the siege of darkness, the captivity of cold, the threat of storm, and the labour to close with the closing enemy, to break ways and save animals alive, and keep the laws in force in the street in the long and secret nights. From such a season of winter at home, winter well known, men broke free to hail their daffodils.
I record, for whom it may concern, this profound contempt of the Crioceris for the daffodils. An insect's opinion is not to be despised: it tells us that we should obtain a more natural arrangement by separating the daffodils farther from the lilies.
Listen to me now think what it would have meant if that wise friend had not died when he did; think that you would never have read: And then my heart with rapture fills, And dances with the daffodils! Think that you would never have read: The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream!
It will take some weeks and will probably cause you inconvenience. But you like suffering, don't you?" "Spring," said Luke, thoughtfully. "Not all daffodils. No." A little later Mr. Alfred Jingle, solicitor, talking to his friend the artist, may be permitted to throw some light on events. "Saw Sharper yesterday. Don't like it. Awful. Went to his house. What? Yes, looking for lunch.
The day when Lady Dunstanwolde had turned from standing among her daffodils, and had found herself confronting the open door of her saloon, and John Oxon passing through it, Mistress Anne had seen that in her face and his which had given to her a shock of terror.
The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting and cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness and not in utter nakedness But trailing clouds of glory, do we come from God who is our home. She read of daffodils as if she would steep her soul in the sun of their yellowness, bought some one morning and propped them in the toothbrush mug.
They whispered to me and called me 'Child of the Stars, 'Dew Heart, and 'Soul of Light. Oh, father, as I came up the valley the voices followed me with song. Everything murmured love. Even the daffodils, nodding in the olive gloom, grew golden at my feet, and a flower within my heart knew of the still sweet secret of the flowers. Listen, listen!"
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