Careful Words

daisy (n.)

Small service is true service while it lasts.

Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,

Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): To a Child. Written in her Album.

  You must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.