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Sun Joy. Common Daisy, Bellis perennis, and Green Bottle Fly, Lucilia sericata, Gaasperpark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Although it's mid-March, here's May's Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) in The Legend of Good Women:

 

OF all the floures in the mede,

Than love I most these floures white and rede,

Soch that men callen daisies in our town;

To hem I have so great affection,

As I said erst, when comen is the May,

That in my bedde there daweth me no day

That I nam up and walking in the mede,

To seene this flour ayenst the Sunne sprede,

Whan it up riseth early by the morrow.

That blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow,

So glad am I, whan that I have the presence

Of it, to done it all reverence,

And ever I love it, and ever ylike newe,

And ever shall, till that mine herte die

All swere I not, of this I will not lie.

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