...be able to overcome it. In his poem, "To a Mountain Daisy," is this manifest reference to himself: "Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred, Unskillful he to note the card of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And...

...amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. (I. 1—6) 60 ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have see (1. 37—38) 61 Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date; Stem...

...the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, and guileless trust, till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, on Life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskillful he to note the card of prudent lore, till billows rage, and gales blow hard, and...

...Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray 'd And guileless trust. Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust.16 Goethe's "Das Veilchen" (The violet) and "Heidenroslein" are the most famous examples, although...