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Use," quod he, "this medicine; Every daie this Maie or that thou dine, Go lokin in upon the freshe daisie, And though thou be for woe in poinct to die, That shall full gretly lessen thee of thy pine." That night Norman started from, what was not so much sleep, as a trance of oppression and suffering, and beheld his father's face watching him attentively. "Papa!
Our own poet Chaucer was a great admirer of Alcestis, and improved upon the legend by turning her into his favorite flower 'The daisie or els the eye of the daie, The emprise and the floure of flouris all'. Another Greek legend told of the maiden of Thebes, one of the most self- devoted beings that could be conceived by a fancy untrained in the knowledge of Divine Perfection.
Here a buttercup pressed like finely beaten brass, there a great yellow rose in my Keats; my Chaucer is like his old meadows, 'ypoudred with daisie, and my Herrick is full of violets. The only thing is that they haunt me sometimes. But then, again, they bloom afresh every spring. As Mr. Monkhouse sings: 'Sweet as the rose that died last year is the rose that is born to-day.
Quit your kidding, Max, and take me in your arms and sing me 'Maizie you're a Daisie' like you used to after after we had a little row. Lemme hear you call me 'Maizie, dear, so I'll know you're only kidding. I'm a bum sport, dearie. I I never could stand for guying. Cut the comedy, dear."
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