Poem : Amy Margaret's Five Year Old

Poet : William Allingham

   Amy Margaret's five years old, 
   Amy Margaret's hair is gold, 
   Dearer twenty-thousand-fold 
       Than gold, is Amy Margaret. 
   "Amy" is friend, is "Margaret" 
   The pearl for crown or carkanet? 
   Or peeping daisy, summer's pet? 
       Which are you, Amy Margaret? 
   A friend, a daisy, and a pearl, 
   A kindly, simple, precious girl, -- 
   Such, howsoe'er the world may twirl, 
       Be ever, -- Amy Margaret!