DEAR CHILDREN. “HAVE you ever, while walking abroad in the fields, Explored an old bank for the treasures it yields? Have you gather'd forget-me-not, sweet-smelling May, And join'd with them cowslips and butter-cups gay; then added blue-bells and traveller's joy, Have you Pale primroses, daffodils, violets coy, Pretty cuckoo-flow'rs, bryony, sweet meadow-grass, Have you twined them together with twigs of the briar, |