--_Leigh Hunt_
Under the Wattle
"Why should not Wattle do For Mistletoe?
Ask"d one--they were but two-- Where wattles grow.
He was her lover, too, Who urged her so-- "Why should not Wattle do For Mistletoe?"
A rose-cheek rosier grew; Rose-lips breathed low-- "Since it is here--and You-- I hardly know Why Wattle should not do."
--_Douglas Brook Wheelton Sladen_
Eutopia
There is a garden where lilies And roses are side by side; And all day between them in silence The silken b.u.t.terflies glide.
I may not enter the garden, Tho" I know the road thereto; And morn by morn to the gateway I see the children go.
They bring back light on their faces; But they cannot bring back to me What the lilies say to the roses, Or the songs of the b.u.t.terflies be.
--_Francis Turner Palgrave_