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Rh For babyhood passed swiftly by, And gone for ever,

If Daisy, laying softly down A waxen doll in gaudy gown, May hold her hands up for a crown That shines for ever.

HE color-fairy in sorrow sat, With her brushes all awry ; Her palette, made of a tulip-leaf, Beside her laid, with its colors dry.

An order, straight from the Fairy Queen, Had come on a hum-bird's wing For a thousand elfin parasols, To be finished late in spring–

Some snowy-white, some azure-ribbed, Some of the rose's hue; But for the Queen the artist-elf Must make the color new.

Thus ran the scroll : &quot;Red as the rose, Yet blue as Gentian s tender eyes; Red as the sunset s parting glow, Blue as a mountain-shadow lies.&quot; 9*