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Shelley, in the exquisite description of flowers in his Poem of the "Sensitive Plant," calls

The scent of the Narcissus, too, is extremely fragrant, and when adorning our windows in wintry weather, how delightfully does the perfumed air of the snug, fire-enlivened study seem to whisper, or at least breathe, of Summer's sweet children and merry blue sky! Yes, the Narcissus is sweet, but it yields the palm of fragrance to its modest neighbour in the wreath. Who does not know that

have their humble dwelling-places in our English lanes? Who has not seen them on many a sunny bank, in early