Crossword-Solution: COWSLIP 7 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

You shall come next, Zephyr.” And the little Fairy, who lay rocking to and fro upon a fluttering vine-leaf, thus began her story:— “As I lay resting in the bosom of a cowslip that bent above the brook, a little wind, tired of play, told me this tale of LILY-BELL AND THISTLEDOWN.

When I was a rude and a reckless boy, And she a brave and a beautiful child, I was her page, her playmate, her toy-- I have crown'd her hair with the field-flowers wild, Cowslip and crow-foot and colt's-foot bright-- I have carried her miles when the woods were wet, I have read her romances of dame and knight; She was my princess, my pride, my pet, There was then this proverb us twain between, For the glory of God and of Gwendoline.

But what of it, if you could tell what they mean? The German Boehme, with his affinities for the abstract, never cared for plants until, one day, he noticed they could speak; that the daisy colloquized with the cowslip on SUCH themes! themes found extant in Jacob’s prose.

The skinny old blue herons crossing from the Wabash to hunt frogs in the cowslip swale in our meadow, sailed so slow and so low, that you could see their sharp bills stuck out in front, their uneven, ragged looking feathers, and their long legs trailing out behind.

Beside the porch, beneath the friendly screen Of two tall trees, a mossy bank was seen; And all around, amid the silvery dew, The wild-wood pansy rear'd her petals blue; And gold cups and the meadow cowslip red, Upon the evening air their odours shed.