StoryTitle("caps", "To a Mountain Daisy") ?>
SubTitle("caps", "On Turning One Down With The Plow In April, 1786") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou's met me in an evil hour;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I maun crush amang the stoure", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy slender stem:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To spare thee now is past my power,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thou bonny gem.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bonny lark, companion meet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' speckled breast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When upward-springing, blithe, to greet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The purpling east!", "") ?>
PagePoem(95, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cauld blew the bitter biting north", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon thy early, humble birth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amid the storm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarce reared above the parent earth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy tender form.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flaunting flowers our gardens yield,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But thou, beneath the random bield", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O' clod or stane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Adorns the histie stibble-field,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unseen, alane.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, in thy scanty mantle clad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy snawie bosom sunward spread,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou lifts thy unassuming head", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In humble guise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now the share uptears thy bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And low thou lies!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such is the fate of artless maid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet floweret of the rural shade!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By love's simplicity betrayed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And guileless trust,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Low i' the dust.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such is the fate of simple bard,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unskilful he to note the card", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of prudent lore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till billows rage, and gales blow hard,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And whelm him o'er!", "") ?>
PagePoem(96, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such fate to suffering worth is given,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who long with wants and woes has striven,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By human pride or cunning driven", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To misery's brink,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till wrenched of every stay but Heaven,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He, ruined, sink!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Even thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That fate is thine—no distant date;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stern Ruin's plowshare drives, elate,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Full on thy bloom,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall be thy doom.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Robert Burns.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>