SEAWEEDS

Within the garden of the sea

Are gems of beauty rare —

The Star-wort and Anemone

And Ocean pinks are there.

Oh, these are dainty things indeed

The Mermaids keep in store;

But fairer still, to me, the weed

That decks the ocean's floor.

Whatever flower of earth we win,

Howe'er so fair it be,

‘ T will not surpass those weeds within

The garden of the sea.