mountain daisy

noun

First recorded in 1855–60

So it comes to pass that Robert Burns mourns when his plow turns under a mountain daisy or destroys the home of a field mouse.

I wonder what he would have written if he had turned up a plantain weed with his plough instead of a mountain daisy.

Who that has once read, can ever forget his harmonious and pathetic address to a mountain daisy on turning it up with the plough?

Few men are his match for staying up all night and looking as fresh as a mountain daisy after the vigil.

Know that blood has been as familiar to her as the dew to the mountain daisy.

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